Patch to take mcollective gitcode and turn it into a gem for mcollective-client

gemspec file

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
Gem::Specification.new do |s|
  s.name        = "mcollective-client"
  s.version     = "1.0.2"
  s.platform    = Gem::Platform::RUBY
  s.authors     = ["RI Pienaar"]
  s.email       = ["ripienaar@puppetlabs.com"]
  s.homepage    = "https://github.com/puppetlabs/marionette-collective"
  s.summary     = %q{Mcollective client}
  s.description = %q{Interact with mcollective}

  s.required_rubygems_version = ">= 1.3.6"
  s.rubyforge_project         = "mcollective-client"
  s.bindir = '.'

  s.add_dependency "stomp"

  s.files        = `git ls-files`.split("\n")
  s.executables  = `git ls-files`.split("\n").map{|f| f =~ /^mc-(.*)/ ? "mc-"+$1 : nil}.compact
  s.require_path = 'lib'
end

gistfile1.txt

diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 805f1cd..ecf5c52 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ ENV["RPM_VERSION"] ? CURRENT_VERSION = ENV["RPM_VERSION"] : CURRENT_VERSION = PR
 ENV["BUILD_NUMBER"] ? CURRENT_RELEASE = ENV["BUILD_NUMBER"] : CURRENT_RELEASE = PROJ_RELEASE
 ENV["DEB_DISTRIBUTION"] ? PKG_DEB_DISTRIBUTION = ENV["DEB_DISTRIBUTION"] : PKG_DEB_DISTRIBUTION = "unstable"
 
+require 'bundler'
+require 'bundler/setup'
+Bundler::GemHelper.install_tasks
+
 CLEAN.include(["build", "doc"])
 
 def announce(msg='')
diff --git a/lib/mcollective/config.rb b/lib/mcollective/config.rb
index 8574472..ec40fc2 100644
--- a/lib/mcollective/config.rb
+++ b/lib/mcollective/config.rb
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ module MCollective
                                 when "loglevel"
                                      @loglevel = val
                                 when "libdir"
+				  # Add libdir plugins from gem
+					gem_libdir=File.expand_path(File.join(__FILE__,'..','..','..','lib'))
+					gem_plugindir=File.expand_path(File.join(__FILE__,'..','..','..','plugins'))
+					val=val+":"+gem_libdir+":"+gem_plugindir
                                     paths = val.split(/:/)
                                     paths.each do |path|
                                         @libdir << path
@@ -57,6 +61,7 @@ module MCollective
                                             $LOAD_PATH << path
                                         end
                                     end
+				    
                                 when "identity"
                                     @identity = val
                                 when "color"

Install

• git clone the mcollective github
• apply this patch

now the rake command has extra tasks (see rake -T)

• run 'rake build' and a gem is created in pkg/...
• now you can gem install pkg/mcollective-version.gem

Issues:

• @Version@ in lib/mcollective is hard to get, it's currently manual
• if somewhere in the path to the mc- files (such as a gemset name with mc-test f.i.), loading of executables failes

Gotcha/Tip:(thx @ripienaar)

• create an .mcollective file (similar to client.cfg)
• create a directory .mcollective.d and set config accordingly