automates the install of npm for versions less than 0.6.3

README.md

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 This is a Vagrant file and set of Chef recipes for building a basic node development environment.
-If you're not familiar with Vagrant, read more about it at vagrantup.com.
+If you're not familiar with Vagrant, read more about it at http://www.vagrantup.com.
 
 To get this to work, you must have VirtualBox (> 4.1.0) and Vagrant (> 1.0) installed. Installers
-for VirtualBox are available at virtualbox.org, and installers for Vagrant are available at 
-vagrantup.com.
+for VirtualBox are available at http://www.virtualbox.org, and installers for Vagrant are available
+at http://www.vagrantup.com.
 
 Once you have the pre-requisites installed, simply open a terminal and add the base box:
 

Vagrantfile

@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
 
   config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
     chef.add_recipe "nodejs"
-    # Uncomment the line below if you're using a version of node
-    # that doesn't include NPM, (version less than 0.6.3)
-    # chef.add_recipe "nodejs::npm"
     chef.add_recipe "mongodb-debs"
     chef.add_recipe "redis-server"
     chef.json = {
       "nodejs" => {
-        "version" => "0.8.8",
+        "version" => "0.8.8"
+        # uncomment the following line to force
+        # node to be built from source
+	# , "from_source" => true
       }
     }
   end

cookbooks/nodejs/recipes/default.rb

@@ -44,6 +44,19 @@
       make install
     EOH
   end
+
+  if node[:nodejs][:version] < "0.6.3"
+    package "curl"
+
+    bash "install npm" do
+      cwd "/usr/local/src"
+      user "root"
+      cwd "/tmp/"	
+      code <<-EOH
+        curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | clean=no sh    
+      EOH
+    end
+  end
 else
   bash "install nodejs" do
     cwd "/opt"