[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: how to alter a recipe in the simplest, DRYest way?

[Roger Rohrbach < >]

Ah, brilliant!  Thanks, Gilles.  It was, like, my first day using  
Chef...


On May 8, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Gilles Devaux wrote:

> Always remember Chef is ruby.
>
> I have a site-cookbook nginx cookbook with attribute file
>
> include_attribute "nginx::nginx" #make sure of the load order
> node[:nginx][:configure_flags] << "--with-http_stub_status_module"  
> #add
>
> --Gilles
>
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Roger Rohrbach  
> <
>  > wrote:
> > Joshua,
> >
> >  Thanks.  I'll try that.  But I humbly submit that Chef can do  
> > better.  DRY,
> > DRY, DRY.  It'd be great to have syntax like:
> >
> >    append_attribute "nginx" => {"configure_flags" =>
> >  "--with-http_realip_module"}
> >
> > (That's probably not what it'd look like, but you get the idea.)
> >
> > R.