Custom Chef Recipes with Engine Yard Cloud | Engine Yard Blog

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The first thing you need to do is ensure that the Redis package is installed on the system; luckily Engine Yard has built a Redis ebuild tuned for our Gentoo systems. Basically, you add a package resource to the top of the recipe that will take care of making sure Redis is installed the first time you run these recipes. After the first run (which installs the package), subsequent runs will just verify that the package is installed and will skip building it again if it is already on the system.

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