Gems installed by root user lands in `/root/.gem`

[jumski]

I install some ruby with this dependency:

---
dependencies:
  - role: rvm_io.rvm1-ruby
    rvm1_rubies:
      - ruby-2.0.0-p643
    rvm1_default_ruby_version: ruby-2.0.0-p643

and later on install a gem with following task:

- name: install backup gem
  tags: focus
  gem: name=backup version=4.2 state=present executable=/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p643/bin/gem

them gem lands into /root/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/gems/ instead of rvm's path. There is only a wrapper in /usr/local/rvm for backup binary.

I've tried with manually overriding environment like this:

  environment:
    PATH: "/usr/local/rvm/gems/{{default_ruby}}/bin:/usr/local/rvm/gems/{{default_ruby}}@global/bin:/usr/local/rvm/rubies/{{default_ruby}}/bin:{{ansible_env.PATH}}"
    GEM_HOME: /usr/local/rvm/gems/{{default_ruby}}
    GEM_PATH: /usr/local/rvm/gems/{{default_ruby}}:/usr/local/rvm/gems/{{default_ruby}}@global

but without any luck.

Is it even possible to use gem_module to install gems for rvm rubies? Or i should fallback to some shell: with creates: trickery?

Thanks for any help!

My versions:

ansible 1.9.3
rvm1-ansible v1.3.7

[namxam]

A response would be greatly appreciated. I am quite new to ansible and have the exact same issue with latest version of this role and ansible.

[jstoeffler]

+1

[ghost]

I'll take a look at this and post something here ASAP.

[coofercat]

The Ansible 'gem' task is the issue here (although I haven't tested with RVM to verify, I've bumped into the same issue elsewhere). It's actually in the docs, but by default the 'gem' task does a 'user-install', so it'll end up in whatever user the task is running as (in your case, that's root).

Change your gem task to this:

- name: install backup gem
  tags: focus
  gem: name=backup user_install=no version=4.2 state=present executable=/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p643/bin/gem