Ruby

John Alberts on September 12th, 2011

I talked my boss into hiring someone to help me.  Yay!  The job won’t officially be posted until Oct 1st; however, I’ve been given approval to start looking for someone. Here’s your chance to work for an awesome company, Exlibris.  It’s an awesome company to work for.  The people in our group are smart and [...]

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John Alberts on June 20th, 2011

Today I posted my first Ohai plugin to Github and put a link on the Opscode Community Plugins wiki page.  I know not a whole lot of people use VServer, but hopefully some will find it useful. #opschef  

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John Alberts on October 27th, 2009

This should apply to RHEL5 as well, but I haven’t verified yet. The easiest solution I’ve found is to simply install Ruby and it’s dependencies and then install RubyGems from source. I’ve written a small script which installs Ruby and it’s dependencies.  It then grabs the RubyGems source tarball and installs Gems from source.  As [...]

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