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How can I run chruby with Ansible?

I developed an Ansible role that installs chruby and another one that installs ruby using ruby-install.

I would like to use chruby in my Ansible playbooks, but the chruby command is not available to the command and shell modules, even if chruby works fine if I login via SSH with the same user I am running the playbook with.

This is what I tried:

  1. Ensuring that chruby is available to all users by deploying the following script to /etc/profile.d/chruby.sh, as suggested in chruby's README:

    if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ] || [ -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ]; then
  source /usr/local/share/chruby/chruby.sh
  source /usr/local/share/chruby/auto.sh
fi

  2. Running a task with the command or shell modules (using /bin/bash as executable) to manually run source /usr/local/share/chruby/chruby.sh and source /usr/local/share/chruby/auto.sh before executing a command task for chruby

In both cases I got the following error: chruby: command not found.

How can I run chruby within an Ansible play?

Solution

  • You can write simple bash/etc script or you can source those files:

    shell: bash -c "source /usr/local/share/chruby/chruby.sh; source /usr/local/share/chruby/auto.sh;chruby ..."