Module to install Ruby from source. Allows versions of Ruby to be installed for which a package may not exist.
Tested on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Puppet 2.7. Patches for other operating systems welcome.
Clone this repo to a ruby directory under your Puppet modules directory:
git clone git://github.com/lucaspiller/puppet-ruby.git ruby
To install and configure Ruby, include the module:
include ruby
You can override defaults in the Ruby config by including the module with this special syntax:
class { ruby: version => '1.9.2-p290' }
This module uses ruby-build to install Ruby and any related tools (e.g. Rubygems), as such it supports any of the definitions ruby-build supports. For example to instal Ruby Enterprise Edition:
class { ruby: version => 'ree-1.8.7-2011.12' }
It doesn't deal with other dependencies though, so if you want to use JRuby you'll need to install a JRE first.
This will also install Bundler, and setup alternatives so that /usr/bin/ruby points to this version. If you don't like that feel free to fork it and make it optional, I'll happily accept a pull request for this. ruby-build will be installed into /opt/ruby-build.