install Rubygem-package on a machine without Rubygems preinstalled, "Provider gem is not functional on this host"

[Ingo Fischer]

On a clean Debian system - without Rubygems installed - I want to install a Rubygem package (ruby-ldap) with Puppet. So the package has "gem" as package Provider. 

This is my manifest so far (I kept it simple):

    # test.pp

    Package { ensure => 'installed' } 

    package { 

      'rubygems' : 

        name => 'rubygems',

    }

    

    package {

      'libldap-ruby1.8' :

        name => 'libldap-ruby1.8',

    }

    

    package { 'libldap2-dev' : 

       name => 'libldap2-dev', 

    }

    

    package { 'libsasl2-dev' : 

      name => 'libsasl2-dev', 

    }

    

    package { 'libsasl2-modules-ldap' : 

      name => 'libsasl2-modules-ldap', 

    }

    

    # My Rubygem, with Provider type 'gem'

    package { 

      'ruby-ldap' : 

        name => 'ruby-ldap',

        provider => 'gem',

    }

    

    Package [ 'rubygems' ] -> Package [ 'ruby-ldap' ] 

    Package [ 'libldap2-dev' ] -> Package [ 'ruby-ldap' ]

    Package [ 'libsasl2-modules-ldap' ] -> Package [ 'ruby-ldap' ]

When I test this manifest (with `puppet apply --noop test.pp`), I'm getting the following output:

    err: /Stage[main]//Package[ruby-ldap]: Provider gem is not functional on this host

I also tried using classes and stages (doing the rubygem install in a stage before the gem install) but I always got the `Provider gem`-error (but maybe I just used the stages in a wrong way). 

How can I install Rubygems packages on a system without Rubygems preinstalled?

  [1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/puppet-users/7DdudbY90cY

[Ingo Fischer]

Since I'm getting no answer here, I get the impression that installing Rubygems with Puppet on a system without Rubygems preinstalled is not possible.

Are there at least any workarounds?

[Nan Liu]

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Ingo Fischer
<ingo.f...@profitbricks.com> wrote:
> Since I'm getting no answer here, I get the impression that installing
> Rubygems with Puppet on a system without Rubygems preinstalled is not
> possible.
>
> Are there at least any workarounds?

This should be fixed in 2.7.8:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6907

What version are you using?

Thanks,

Nan

[Ingo Fischer]

Thanks for the issue, now I know that there at least has been an error in relation to my problem.
But its strange, as I got the error with 2.7.13.
I just retried it on another machine with 2.7.14 installed, there it works (successfully installed Rubygems and a Gem at once).
So I'll just upgrade to 2.7.14.

Thanks again!
Cheers,
Ingo