Puppet users - Sep 2014 - Reloading missing gems in a custom provider during the run

Hi,

I have a custom type and provider that are depending on a rest-client gem.

After the pluginsync, when providers get loaded, I do this to avoid it
failing:

 30 begin
 31   require 'rest-client'
 32 rescue LoadError => e
 33   Puppet.info "You need the `rest-client` gem for this to work."
 34 end


The rest-client is not present before the run, thus I get an Info message:
"Info: You need the `rest-client` gem for this to work."

The rest-client gem is then installed before the code that uses this type
is run, but the actual provider still thinks the rest-client is not present
(as it was loaded without it), thus it fails to run.

Is there any way to force puppet to reload the provider before the
associated custom type is run, or anything else I can do?

Thanks!
Karolis

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