gems Cookbook

Sets up a local gem server repository.

Requirements

Platform:

• Ubuntu / Debian

Cookbooks:

• apache2
• rsync

Attributes

• gem_server['virtual_host_name'] - ServerName for Apache vhost. Default 'gems.domain'.
• gem_server['virtual_host_alias'] - ServerAlias(es) for Apache vhost. Default 'gems'.
• gem_server['directory'] - Filesystem location for the repository, default is /srv/gems.

Usage

Create files/default/packages, and copy gems to that directory.

Specify the gem source on clients via the command line, for example:

sudo gem source -a http://gems
sudo gem install rails --source http://gems

Or use the source with gem_package resources in your chef recipes.

gem_package "rails" do
  source "http://gems"
end

Use the gems::mirror recipe to mirror RubyForge. This will take a long time because the repository is 28k+ gems and over 5.5G. It will also override the remote_directory resource to not notify gem generate_index, and instead handle that in the cron job that does the rsync.

License and Author

Author:: Joshua Timberman joshua@chef.io

Copyright:: 2009-2015, Chef Software, Inc

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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