How to ignore some exception in a cookbook

#1

In one of my receipt I need to install a gem

gem hipchat do
action: install
end

However from time to time it fails due to network or other issue.

I do not want it to fail the overall installation process. I would rather
have the whole provision completed and then go in later and fix it manually
myself.

Is there any way I can prevent its failure from stopping the convergence?

Cheers

#2

On 2015-02-27 06:35, Anthony Kong wrote:

In one of my receipt I need to install a gem

gem hipchat do
action: install
end

[…]
Is there any way I can prevent its failure from stopping the convergence?

Try with ignore_failure:

gem hipchat do
ignore_failure true
action: install
end

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