Installing a gem using saltstack with --user-install option

Question

I want to replicate the following step of a deployment in saltstack, as a given user:

gem install --user-install bundler

I checked the documentation and I was still unsure as to how to do this. I tried the following:

bundler-install:
  gem.installed:
    - user: username
    - name: bundler

And:

bundler-install:
  gem.installed:
    - user: username
    - name: bundler
    - gem_bin: gem install --user-install

And:

bundler-install:
  gem.installed:
    - user: username
    - gem_bin: gem install --user-install bundler

I guess I'm either doing it wrong or this isn't possible? Can anyone advise?

Answer 1

I raised this a feature request/bug with saltstack:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/31821