How to use puppet's ensure_packages with my forked repository

Question

I'm installing the latest sensu-plugins-mysql with the following puppet code successfully:

ensure_packages('sensu-plugins-mysql', { provider => sensu_gem, ensure => latest})

But I want to use my fork nagyt234/sensu-plugins-mysql , created from sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-mysql , how to do it? The source option doesn't work:

ensure_packages('sensu-plugins-mysql', { provider => sensu_gem, source => 'https://github.com/nagyt234/sensu-plugins-mysql.git', ensure => latest})

Answer 1

The problem is, that sensu_gem is not able to install a gem directly from a github repository, so the sensu-plugins-mysql was always installed from rubygem.org . I had to generate my own gem with a different name and publish it to rubygem.org .