Use Gem version of Chef with Test Kitchen

[rhass]

I seem to have come across an issue with Test Kitchen in which it seems to
assume the location of the chef-client executable is in
/opt/chef/bin/chef-client despite setting the provisioner value
"chef_omnibus_root: false" - I dug around in the test-kitchen code a bit,
but its not completely apparent to me how and where this path is getting
set. Is there a way to override this?

Thanks!

-Ryan H.

[Cameron_Cope]

Try setting ruby_bindir: ‘/path/to/folder/containing/chef/client’ in your
provisioner section to tell it where to find the chef binary. I haven’t
tested it with chef but I would expect it works (seems to be a setting in
the main testkitchen code).

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Ryan Hass ryan@invalidchecksum.net
wrote:

I seem to have come across an issue with Test Kitchen in which it seems to
assume the location of the chef-client executable is in
/opt/chef/bin/chef-client despite setting the provisioner value
"chef_omnibus_root: false" - I dug around in the test-kitchen code a bit,
but its not completely apparent to me how and where this path is getting
set. Is there a way to override this?

Thanks!

-Ryan H.

[Jared_Everett]

Cameron is correct. This is taken from one of our .kitchen.yml files because it is needed when we test with SmartOS:

platforms:

• name: smartos-es
  driver:
  joyent_image_id: 8b05ccbe-0890-11e5-8d30-57386d1d5482
  joyent_flavor_id: c2-r2-d25
  joyent_networks:
  - fe7ee82c-086d-4bc0-8564-4ac3a8f773cb
  provisioner:
  chef_omnibus_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SIGUSR2/kitchen-smartos/master/smartos_chef.sh
  ruby_bindir: '/opt/local/bin’
  busser:
  ruby_bindir: ‘/opt/local/bin’

Notice that we also put it under ‘busser’ to allow ServerSpec to run.

On Aug 24, 2015, at 1:12 AM, Ryan Hass ryan@invalidchecksum.net wrote:

I seem to have come across an issue with Test Kitchen in which it seems to assume the location of the chef-client executable is in /opt/chef/bin/chef-client despite setting the provisioner value “chef_omnibus_root: false” - I dug around in the test-kitchen code a bit, but its not completely apparent to me how and where this path is getting set. Is there a way to override this?

Thanks!

-Ryan H.