We’re looking to embed chef inside of a rails 3.2.x app, and are running
into incompatibility issues with the JSON gem.
Chef very rigorously requires json (<= 1.6.1, >= 1.4.4) which is
incompatible with what most other gems used in the rails eco-system use.
Not to mention that this is gem is over a year old. I’ve had to go back as
far as chef 0.8.10 to satisfy this json dependency.
Is there a known issue that is preventing chef to upgrading to a newer JSON
gem, or just use yajl-ruby gem?
On Nov 13, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Ketan Padegaonkar wrote:
We're looking to embed chef inside of a rails 3.2.x app, and are running into incompatibility issues with the JSON gem.
Chef very rigorously requires json (<= 1.6.1, >= 1.4.4) which is incompatible with what most other gems used in the rails eco-system use. Not to mention that this is gem is over a year old. I've had to go back as far as chef 0.8.10 to satisfy this json dependency.
Is there a known issue that is preventing chef to upgrading to a newer JSON gem, or just use yajl-ruby gem?
Ridley also has support for executing common Knife like operations within another Ruby app like bootstrapping nodes in parallel and asking them to run Chef client.
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On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
On Nov 13, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Ketan Padegaonkar wrote:
We're looking to embed chef inside of a rails 3.2.x app, and are running into incompatibility issues with the JSON gem.
Chef very rigorously requires json (<= 1.6.1, >= 1.4.4) which is incompatible with what most other gems used in the rails eco-system use. Not to mention that this is gem is over a year old. I've had to go back as far as chef 0.8.10 to satisfy this json dependency.
Is there a known issue that is preventing chef to upgrading to a newer JSON gem, or just use yajl-ruby gem?
Ridley also has support for executing common Knife like operations within another Ruby app like bootstrapping nodes in parallel and asking them to run Chef client.
On Nov 13, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Ketan Padegaonkar wrote:
We're looking to embed chef inside of a rails 3.2.x app, and are running into incompatibility issues with the JSON gem.
Chef very rigorously requires json (<= 1.6.1, >= 1.4.4) which is incompatible with what most other gems used in the rails eco-system use. Not to mention that this is gem is over a year old. I've had to go back as far as chef 0.8.10 to satisfy this json dependency.
Is there a known issue that is preventing chef to upgrading to a newer JSON gem, or just use yajl-ruby gem?
To answer the original question, there's no reason why we can't bump the dependency version on JSON -- patches accepted.
The reason we have a strict dependency on the JSON gem version is that in the past, patch releases of the gem have broken Chef or Ohai. Setting a strict dependency has successfully prevented this from happening.