community.general.gem – Manage Ruby gems

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.gem.

Synopsis

  • Manage installation and uninstallation of Ruby gems.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
build_flags
string
Allow adding build flags for gem compilation
env_shebang
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Rewrite the shebang line on installed scripts to use /usr/bin/env.
executable
path
Override the path to the gem executable
force
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Force gem to install, bypassing dependency checks.
gem_source
path
The path to a local gem used as installation source.
include_dependencies
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Whether to include dependencies or not.
include_doc
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Install with or without docs.
install_dir
path
Install the gems into a specific directory. These gems will be independent from the global installed ones. Specifying this requires user_install to be false.
name
string / required
The name of the gem to be managed.
pre_release
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Allow installation of pre-release versions of the gem.
repository
string
The repository from which the gem will be installed

aliases: source
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
  • latest
The desired state of the gem. latest ensures that the latest version is installed.
user_install
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Install gem in user's local gems cache or for all users
version
string
Version of the gem to be installed/removed.

Examples

- name: Install version 1.0 of vagrant
  community.general.gem:
    name: vagrant
    version: 1.0
    state: present

- name: Install latest available version of rake
  community.general.gem:
    name: rake
    state: latest

- name: Install rake version 1.0 from a local gem on disk
  community.general.gem:
    name: rake
    gem_source: /path/to/gems/rake-1.0.gem
    state: present

Authors

  • Ansible Core Team

  • Johan Wiren (@johanwiren)