How to control the version of Chef that Vagrant uses to provision VMs?

Question

A current Chef recipe isn\'t running because of a bug in version 0.10.10. How can I upgrade the version of Chef that Vagrant uses, to 0.10.12?

I don\'t want to just

Answer 1

I am unable to post comments on answers, but I wanted to add a note to Bryan Larsen's answer above. In order to get his provisioning command to work, I needed to add a line before it to be able to build the gem native extensions during install of the new Chef version. Therefore, it became:

config.vm.provision :shell, inline: 'apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev'
config.vm.provision :shell, inline: 'gem install chef --version 11.4.4 --no-rdoc --no-ri'

This was on Ubuntu 13.04, in case that matters to anyone.