Install Chef on Amazon Linux

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sudo su -

Packages Installation

yum -y update
yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum -y install readline-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel curl-devel ncurses-devel gdbm-devel sqlite-devel

Ruby Intallation with rbenv

git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
mkdir -p ~/.rbenv/plugins
cd ~/.rbenv/plugins
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git
rbenv install 2.0.0-p0
rbenv global 2.0.0-p0

Chef Installation

echo 'gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc' > ~/.gemrc
gem install chef