Gems Being Installed but the Symlink for the Executable is Not Created

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Hi guys
I’m using ansible to deploy the scoutapp.com agent which is basically a ruby gem. I have used both the gem and shell modules to install the module, the problem is after the module is installed, the executable isn’t symlinked to a location like /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin which is what would happen if I run the exact same command in a shell. I know ansible runs this stuff using a Python script so I was wondering if you know anyway I can fix this?

This is my instructions:

  • name: Install the scout gem
    shell: gem install scout -no-rdoc -no-ri

And this is the one I tried with the gem module:

  • name: Install the scout gem
    gem: name=scout state=present
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Look at the 'user_install' option on the gem task.

Cheers
Dick.

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Thanks, Dick. That did the job. Actually I saw this option but thought it would work the other way around (as in if set to yes, it would create the executable). It’s working like a charm now.