Jira (PUP-2164) require 'puppet' now throws an error in 3.5.0 with Ruby 1.8.7 as rubygems is not initialized

[Charlie Sharpsteen (JIRA)]

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Charlie Sharpsteen commented on an issue   Re: require 'puppet' now throws an error in 3.5.0 with Ruby 1.8.7 as rubygems is not initialized Also, interesting to note that if JSON is not installed, puppet --version throws an error: # puppet --version /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- json (LoadError) from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/lib/puppet/module.rb:3:in `<top (required)>' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/files.rb:1:in `<top (required)>' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/templatewrapper.rb:1:in `<top (required)>' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/scope.rb:6:in `<top (required)>' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/methods.rb:2:in `<top (required)>' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/ast/method_call.rb:2:in `<top (required)>' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/ast.rb:115:in `<top (required)>' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/parser.rb:11:in `<top (required)>' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/lib/puppet/parser.rb:4:in `<top (required)>' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/lib/puppet.rb:240:in `<top (required)>' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb:12:in `<top (required)>' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /puppetlabs/puppet/bin/puppet:3:in `<main>' Requiring a JSON parser, let alone the whole module subsystem, to print out the Puppet version seems to indicate some code that could be better factored. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2164 require 'puppet' now throws an error in 3.5.0 with Ruby 1.8.7 as rubygems is not initialized We now ship {{rubygems-json}} for EL 6.x as a dependency of Puppet 3.5.0. However, Ruby 1.8.7 does not initialize the Gem search paths by default which leads to the following error: {noformat} # yum install -y puppet-3.5.0-1.el6 # ... much yum output ... # ruby -e ' require "puppet" ' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/module.rb:3:in `require':... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.