[chef-dev] Re: How to parse knife.rb

[Adam Jacob < >]

If you don't care about validity, just take chef/config.rb, and then:

Chef::Config.from_file 

And you're golden. No deps.

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On Mar 21, 2013, at 7:11 PM, "Cassiano Leal" 
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 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Sorry if this is not the best forum for my question, but it seems to be 
> more appropriate than the regular Chef's user list.
> 
> I'm the author of vagrant-butcher [0], a Vagrant plugin that deletes node 
> and client when the VM is destroyed.
> 
> The way the plugin works is by reading knife's configuration and then using 
> Chef::REST to do the deletions.
> 
> This has to change now, though. It's not possible to install the plugin on 
> the latest version of Vagrant because it requires a version of net-ssh that 
> conflicts with Chef's. [1]
> 
> What I'm trying to do now is to parse knife.rb so that I can feed Ridley 
> [2] the constructor parameters it needs to create a connection to Chef's 
> API, but this is proving to be quite a challenge.
> 
> Has anyone done it before? Does anyone have any pointers to the best way of 
> doing that?
> 
> I've been experimenting with evaluating the code in knife.rb, but it's (1) 
> an ugly hack, and (2) not working :)
> 
> Thanks!
> - cassiano
> 
> [0] https://github.com/cassianoleal/vagrant-butcher
> [1] https://github.com/cassianoleal/vagrant-butcher/issues/5
> [2] https://github.com/reset/ridley
>