Issue when installing chef-solo : "\xEF" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8

[Matt]

Hi Brian,

Do you get that error also:
[...]
Installing chef-solo on Nodes ["web-1"]. This may take a few
minutes..........

rake aborted!
"\xEF" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8

I do when I use ruby-1.9.2 in my local workstation (mac) to configure
maestro (through chef-solo) when chef-solo is running a ruby-1.8.7
version.
I have got to switch to ruby-1.8.7 also on my local workstation to
continue with the configuration task of chef-solo.

Do you think it can be avoided?

Have a think about it..
Thanks / Matt

[Brian Ploetz]

Hey Matt,

Yeah, I ran into this as well last night when I was testing out the
region changes. It seems to be an issue in the underlying Log4R gem. I
filed an issue for it, and will look into it more later this week:

http://github.com/bploetz/maestro/issues#issue/16

I did what you did to avoid this, which was to run the maestro rake
tasks under Ruby 1.8.7.

I'll let you know when this is fixed.
BP

[Brian Ploetz]

Hi Matt,

FYI, this bug has been fixed in Maestro 0.4.2. Please update to this
version and let me know if you run into any issues.

Thanks.
BP

[Matt]

Hi Brian,

Thank you for preventing the rake task failure with this fix.

I have also been able to use your demo app to deploy my own ec2
instance running passenger/nginx, mysql/ebs after installing RVM on
target instance.

I then deploy my application from its own git repository using normal
capistrano deployment task. It's working well.
The goal will be to include RVM in the recipe mix to facilitate new
ec2 deployments.

Cheers / Matt

[Brian Ploetz]

Excellent, glad to hear it.

Yeah, I just use Capistrano to deploy as well. I use the Capistrano
multistage gem, and map each "stage" to a named Maestro cloud. Works
like a charm.

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/7/23/capistrano-multistage

Cheers,
BP