How can I use sudo for gem_package resource

Question

I want to install the bluepill service, but when I try to do this without sudo I get the following error.

vagrant@leibniz-my-app:~$ gem install bluepill
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
    You don't have write permissions into the /opt/vagrant_ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 directory.

Then if I want to reuse the bluepill cookbook for this, I have this problem, because this cookbook use gem_package and it hasn't an option sudo.

gem_package "bluepill" do
  version node["bluepill"]["version"] if node["bluepill"]["version"]
  action :install
end

Then my question is: It is possible to use sudo into a gem_package resource?

Answer 1

The Chef Client always runs as root unless you specify otherwise. If you are running as root, you don't need sudo.