Ruby cookbook

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Ohai Chefs!

I wanted to let everyone know that CHEF is going to maintain the ruby
cookbook0. We’re going to use this in earnest for a variety of internal
projects, and we will have updates, primarily in the form of creating a
resource/provider for managing Ruby installation in a cross-platform and
cross-implementation manner.

We’ll do what we can to maintain backwards compatibility, and fix some
outstanding bugs. The tentative plan is:

  1. Release a 0.9.3 version that addresses outstanding bugs and ensures
    compatibility with Chef 12.
  2. Release a 1.0 version that is considered stable, which will introduce a
    new resource/provider.
  3. Release a 2.0 version that is also considered stable, which will likely
    remove the current recipes, and include additional providers. We’ll
    probably also remove the definitions at this point, as the recipes are the
    main thing that leverage them.

There’s a lot of different ways to install Ruby across a lot of different
operating systems. We want this to be as flexible feature complete as is
reasonable, but we cannot possibly support every single possibility.
Actionable things will be tracked as issues on the ruby cookbook
repository1, so watch the project if you want to keep up to date.

Cheers,
Joshua

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I forgot to mention that in the 1.0 release, the cookbook will drop special
support for Ruby 1.8.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Joshua Timberman joshua@chef.io wrote:

Ohai Chefs!

I wanted to let everyone know that CHEF is going to maintain the ruby
cookbook0. We're going to use this in earnest for a variety of internal
projects, and we will have updates, primarily in the form of creating a
resource/provider for managing Ruby installation in a cross-platform and
cross-implementation manner.

We'll do what we can to maintain backwards compatibility, and fix some
outstanding bugs. The tentative plan is:

  1. Release a 0.9.3 version that addresses outstanding bugs and ensures
    compatibility with Chef 12.
  2. Release a 1.0 version that is considered stable, which will introduce a
    new resource/provider.
  3. Release a 2.0 version that is also considered stable, which will likely
    remove the current recipes, and include additional providers. We'll
    probably also remove the definitions at this point, as the recipes are the
    main thing that leverage them.

There's a lot of different ways to install Ruby across a lot of different
operating systems. We want this to be as flexible feature complete as is
reasonable, but we cannot possibly support every single possibility.
Actionable things will be tracked as issues on the ruby cookbook
repository1, so watch the project if you want to keep up to date.

Cheers,
Joshua