Fwd: Search in environment file?

Hi all,

Is there a way to run a search call within an environment file(ruby version not json)? If anyone can point me toward a doc or a snippet it would be a huge help to me.

I know this is not a great or recommended way to do this, but I'm stuck unwinding a pre-existing chef setup, and it's getting tedious to add each entry manually when we're adding 30-40 nodes to a cluster at a time.

Thanks for any help you can give,
Greg

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you can do it, but it will be hack. The environment file thats being
uploaded to chef server is not in ruby, its infact a serializable file
(json), ruby -> json conversion is done by knife from the triggering point
(workstation from where knife environment from file is being used).
now the hack:

q = Chef::Search::Query.new
nodes = q.search(:node, 'foo:bar' )

we can provide more detailed example if you can tell us exactly what search
you want..

hth

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Gregory Patmore gregorypatmore@gmail.com
wrote:

Hi all,

Is there a way to run a search call within an environment file(ruby
version not json)? If anyone can point me toward a doc or a snippet it
would be a huge help to me.

I know this is not a great or recommended way to do this, but I'm stuck
unwinding a pre-existing chef setup, and it's getting tedious to add each
entry manually when we're adding 30-40 nodes to a cluster at a time.

Thanks for any help you can give,
Greg

Sent by magical ones and zeros