opscode/chef — pull request #208 by VictorLowther (2011-12-24 01:10:47+00:00)
Title: Make the rubygems provider honor Gem.configuration["gem"]

This patches the gem_package provider to invoke the gem subcommand to install gems whenever Gem.configuration["gem"] has a value (which it will get from either $HOME/.gemrc or /etc/gemrc)