puppet module not working out of the box (at least in RedHat 6.5)

[Nicko Glayre]

Looks like rest_client (or rest-client) gem is missing on puppet 3.4 which comes with embedded 1.9.1 ruby version. With puppet and nexus 2.11.x installed on a RedHat 6.5 (I know it is writen that the module is tested on an Ubuntu 12.04), the module is not working out of the box. I don't know if this is because of RedHat and didn't tested on Ubuntu. It is not really a problem as the incrimined gem can be downloaded and put at the right place, however as I guess it is one of the main "brick" of the module it may be good to inform about this dependency.

[Peter Leschev]

G'day,

We've only ever run with this puppet module on Ubuntu, we would be very happy to receive contributions to make this module RH compatible (even if it's just to update the doco). Just to confirm, are you running Open Source Puppet or Puppet Enterprise?

Cheers, Peter

[Nicko Glayre]

We're running Puppet Entreprise. So if I understand you well, this puppet module is working out of the box on Ubuntu ?

[Peter Leschev]

Ah, we might be installing the gem on our our machines by default so we're not seeing this explicit dependency. @mmeinhold should we add a manifest with this gem package dep or just update the doco of requirements?

[Martin Meinhold]

Yeah, we could add a miminal install.pp manifest the would do something like

package { 'rest-client':
  ensure   => '1.6.7',
  provider => 'gem'
}

// same for mime-type

This /may/ require to install rubygems as well.

[Antoine Boegli]

Mmh, part of the problem would be that we need the reat-client gem installed in the Puppet Ruby tree and not in the system Ruby tree...

[Wenlan Yang]

Submitted pull request: https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/puppet-module-nexus_rest/pull-requests/48/issue-4-confine-rest-client-as-a-feature

[Martin Meinhold]

Both changes in that area - pull request #48 and pull request #49 - have been merged and 0.4.4 has been released. You should be able to install the required rest-client in the same Puppet run as you install Nexus.