fixed the issue for us 👍

+1 for getting this fixed, running in to the exact same issue and the patch fixed it.

hi @comandrei
I do a PR comandrei#1 in your repository to improve your patch.
Feel free to comment / merge :)

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This might be happening as a result of pypa/virtualenv#532

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Dir.home will cause 'NoMethodError: undefined method `home' for Dir:Class' on Amazon Opsworks (Chef version 11.4.4)

@wolfg1969 Dir.home was added in Ruby 1.9, is Amazon using Ruby 1.8?

@coderanger yes, I think so. Using File.expand_path should be ok.

@wolfg1969 That is unfortunate, Chef ships Ruby 1.9.3 so anything earlier than that is formally unsupported. As I rewrite this cookbook a bit it will definitely become 1.9+-only, so I would recommend avoiding Opsworks if they are indeed using an incorrect version of Ruby.

@coderanger I understand. I'll do the trick in my cookbook.

Thank you @coderanger for upgrading this cookbook to Ruby 1.9+.

This patch fixes virtual env creation but the pip provider keeps raising the same OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/.distlib' for me.
I manually uninstalled virtualenv 1.11, removed the env and then installed 1.10.1 and that solved the problem.

Fixed the issue for me 👍

Just curious if we are going to merge this or wait for a pip update instead?

I'm getting the "NoMethodError: undefined method `home' for Dir:Class" error using Vagrant. When did chef move on to ruby 1.9? does this backwards-compatability snag mean Vagrant should update their dependencies?

@cpdean Chef omnibus has always used Ruby 1.9. The provisioner-included baseboxes have been deprecated by both Vagrant and Chef for a long time, use the vagrant-omnibus plugin.

ah, thanks!
On Feb 8, 2014 12:04 PM, "Noah Kantrowitz" notifications@github.com wrote:

@cpdean https://github.com/cpdean Chef omnibus has always used Ruby
1.9. The provisioner-included baseboxes have been deprecated by both
Vagrant and Chef for a long time, use the vagrant-omnibus plugin.

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