Conversion of ruby roles to json

Tim_Diggins · February 19, 2011, 7:04am

Just sharing a Rake task I created for converting roles in rb form to json
form.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/timdiggins/834890

chef-roles-to-json-task.rb

# ADD this to Rakefile and run it by issuing rake roles.to_json

ROLE_DIR = File.expand_path(File.join(TOPDIR, "roles"))
namespace :roles do 
	desc "Convert ruby roles from ruby to json, creating/overwriting json files."
	task :to_json do 
	  Dir.glob(File.join(ROLE_DIR, '*.rb')) do |rb_file|
	    role = Chef::Role.new
	    role.from_file(rb_file)
	    json_file = rb_file.sub(/\.rb$/,'.json')

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(Why, you ask? Well, I find the ruby dsl is much more readable and writable
than the json file. The ruby files are good for everything on the platform, but
I’m testing my chef recipes and roles using vagrant with chef solo, which seems
to require json files (json is only created when you upload to server)

all the best

Tim

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