Super Simple Chef Solo - non-root rvm install w/ ruby 1.9.2, chef 0.10.4 on CentOS 6.0.

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[jtimberman@centos6 ~]$ git clone git://github.com/opscode/chef-repo.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jtimberman/chef-repo/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 199, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (118/118), done.
remote: Total 199 (delta 72), reused 161 (delta 48)
Receiving objects: 100% (199/199), 30.19 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (72/72), done.
[jtimberman@centos6 ~]$ cd chef-repo
[jtimberman@centos6 chef-repo]$ mkdir cookbooks/example/recipes
[jtimberman@centos6 chef-repo]$ echo '{"run_list": ["recipe[example]"]}' >> solo.json
[jtimberman@centos6 chef-repo]$ echo -ne "file_cache_path '$HOME/.chef/cache'\nbackup_path '$HOME/.chef/backup'\nchecksum_path '$HOME/.chef/checksums'\ncookbook_path '$HOME/chef-repo/cookbooks'\n" > solo.rb
[jtimberman@centos6 chef-repo]$ cat solo.rbfile_cache_path '/home/jtimberman/.chef/cache'
backup_path '/home/jtimberman/.chef/backup'
checksum_path '/home/jtimberman/.chef/checksums'
cookbook_path '/home/jtimberman/chef-repo/cookbooks'
[jtimberman@centos6 chef-repo]$ vi cookbooks/example/recipes/default.rb 
[jtimberman@centos6 chef-repo]$ cat cookbooks/example/recipes/default.rb 
file "/tmp/Hello_World" do
  content "Hello, world!"
end
[jtimberman@centos6 chef-repo]$ chef-solo -c solo.rb -j solo.json
[Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:06:01 -0600] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.4 ***
[Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:06:01 -0600] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[example]"] from JSON
[Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:06:01 -0600] INFO: Run List is [recipe[example]]
[Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:06:01 -0600] INFO: Run List expands to [example]
[Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:06:01 -0600] INFO: Starting Chef Run for localhost
[Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:06:01 -0600] INFO: Processing file[/tmp/Hello_World] action create (example::default line 1)
[Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:06:01 -0600] INFO: file[/tmp/foo] created file /tmp/Hello_World
[Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:06:01 -0600] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.004812239 seconds
[Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:06:01 -0600] INFO: Running report handlers
[Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:06:01 -0600] INFO: Report handlers complete