test.rb

# https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite#note

$ sudo -H npm install -g meteorite

In chef?

Does not work correctly (missing root privileges):

execute 'install_meteorite' do
  user 'myuser'
  group 'myuser'
  environment ({ 'HOME' => '/root' })
  command 'npm install -g meteorite'
end

execute 'install_meteorite' do
  user 'root'
  group 'root'
  environment ({ 'HOME' => '/root' })
  command 'npm install -g meteorite'
end

I would suggest looking at the nodejs cookbook, and use the npm LWRP to install the package.
https://github.com/redguide/nodejs

nodejs_npm 'meteorite'

@dwradcliffe Thanks for this cookbook. I used it instead of the community site one, cleaned all the junk I had manually compiled in /usr/local, and it started to work again using the nodejs_npm!