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Update chef gem command doc for adding habitat gem install
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https://progresssoftware.atlassian.net/browse/CHEF-34170

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@sanghinitin sanghinitin added the ai-assisted Work completed with AI assistance following Progress AI policies label Aug 26, 2026
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### Premium gems

Chef Workstation can install premium extensions from the Chef Premium RubyGem server at rubygems.chef.io. When you run a remote gem command (install, search, fetch, update, or download), Chef Workstation automatically checks whether rubygems.chef.io is already configured and, if not, attempts to add it:

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Do you mean premium gems here? What is remote gem command?

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Yes premium gems, remote gem command means chef gem (install, search, fetch, update, or download) with remote flag

version of Ruby that's packaged within Chef Workstation).
will be installed to the following locations:

- **Habitat-based Chef Workstation**: gems are stored in `~/.chef/ruby/version#/bin` and persist across Workstation upgrades and downgrades.

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What is habitat base Chef Workstationa and non habitat based Chef Workstation?

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In Early Docs its mentioned for omnibus workstation, that why i have written habitat based.

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This looks fine to me but we need update the earlier 26.1.x and 26.0.x docs. I believe those versions did not had support for chef gem commands right @sanghinitin https://docs.chef.io/workstation/26.0/tools/ctl_chef/#chef-gem https://docs.chef.io/workstation/26.1/tools/ctl_chef/#chef-gem right @sanghinitin ?

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