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This seems to have a non-interactive option.

http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx.html#_non_interactive_automatic_headless_installs_or_upgrades

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Michael,

Thanks for the quick reply. I think the passenger-install-nginx-module was a poor example. What if there was an install or package that required interactive answers but did not have a headless option? How would one handle that in Ansible?

Btw, so far I’m loving it. It’s much easier to get things done than in Chef/Puppet. So far I don’t see any limitations but again I’m just getting started.

Thanks for all your help.

-James
@jamesjelinek

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  • name: Build nginx w passenger
    shell: passenger-install-nginx-module --auto --auto-download --prefix=/opt/nginx creates=/opt/nginx
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Awesome, thanks!

Would you mind sharing your full rails install playbook with me? You can email me directly if you like.

Thanks!
-James

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this is it, i have a few more tasks but they have to do with custom stuff for our apps

http://pastebin.com/3aUU8gLY

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This is great, I’m going to bookmark it. Thanks Brian!

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I need to cleanup, but i’ll add this and more to my github ansible-pb repo.

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If something goes interactive and can only be done that way, you would probably have to use expect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect

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That’s what I figured, luckily most packages have headless installs and options.

Thanks again, Michael.