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Installing ruby 1.9

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matschaffer edited this page Feb 12, 2013 · 1 revision

It's likely that knife-solo will soon be compatible with ruby 1.9 only. As such here are some options for getting ruby 1.9 installed on your system.

Since you're reading this on knife-solo's wiki, the best approach for you may be the chef client installer available at http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/

This will allow you to choose the appropriate script or package for your operating system and install chef as well as ruby.

Once it's installed you can install knife-solo under into it's gem system by running something like:

/opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install knife-solo

Or on windows

C:\chef\embedded\bin\gem install knife-solo

It's not advisable to use this as a general-purpose ruby installation since installing other gems could cause issues with chef itself, but it's safe to install knife plugins this way.

If you need a general purpose Ruby installation you probably will want to try one of the following projects

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