[chef] Re: My first chef cookbook

[Ringo De Smet < >]

Pablo,

On 29 June 2010 01:46, Pablo Kang 
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 >
 wrote:
> Wrote a blog post on my experience writing my first cookbook. It takes a
> step by step approach. Thought it might be useful for folks just getting
> their feet wet like I am.
> http://blazingcloud.net/2010/06/28/our-first-chef-cookbook/

As another user of Chef, I suggest an improvement to your cookbook.
Your openfire default recipe contains this snippet:

execute "wget" do
 tarball_url = 
"http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloadServlet?filename=openfire/#{tarball}";
 cwd "/tmp"
 command "wget #{tarball_url}"
 creates "/tmp/#{tarball}"
 action :run
end

Retrieving a remote file is better done by the "remote_file" (1) resource:

remote_file "/tmp/#{tarball}" do
  source 
"http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloadServlet?filename=openfire/#{tarball}";
  mode "0644"
  checksum "08da002l" # A SHA256 (or portion thereof) of the file.
end

(1) http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Resources#Resources-RemoteFile

Cheers,

Ringo