[chef] Re: REST authentication

[Claus Divossen < >]

On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 22:17 -0700, Nick wrote:
> Hi Chef folks-
> 
> I'm very new to Chef.  I'm trying to update the nodes on my chef server 
> using Chef::REST, and I'm having trouble getting authenticated.  
[...]
> Is there something that I am missing about using Chef::REST?  Is there a 
> better library I should try using for RESTful Node management?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Nick

Hi Nick,

have a look at "Knife", http://gist.github.com/104080. It's a nice
little command line tool to handle node/recipe assignments and
attributes which is based on the Rest API.

Regards,
  Claus