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Summary
Now that you have installed the Chef development tools on your computer using either the
Chef Development Kit installer or the Chef Client installer, you have all the basic tools you
need to interact with Chef. For some environments, there is no Chef Development Kit avail-
able, so we walked you through the manual steps necessary to make a Chef Client installa-
tion equivalent to a Chef Development Kit installation, for the purposes of this topic. The
Chef Development Kit is a superset of the Chef Client, with some additional community
tools bundled with the installer. You can install these extra tools by hand if there is not yet a
Chef Development Kit available for your platform.
Before we delve more deeply into Chef, in the next chapter we'll take a brief, related detour
covering just enough Ruby to get started with Chef. Chef is based on Ruby, so you have to
know a little bit of Ruby to get started with Chef.
