[chef] Re: Cookbook files not visible in Web UI / Management Portal?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Ringo De Smet 
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 wrote:
> Hello,
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> It just struck me: regular cookbook files (the "files" subfolder of a
> cookbook) are not visible in the webui, contrary to definitions,
> libraries, recipes and templates. Is there any specific reason for
> this?

The open source webui now does show cookbook files. IIRC, this feature
was added in 0.9.10. I believe the original reason they were omitted
is that they could be arbitrarily large and/or binary, but we added
some heuristics to detect this and avoid displaying such files. The
Opscode platform doesn't have this feature yet because we need to
rewrite the heuristics to work correctly with files from S3.

As a side note, the binary detection code uses Numeric#fdiv, which is
not defined on Ruby 1.8.6. I've created a bug ticket for this, and a
workaround is attached (just stick the monkey patch for Numeric#fdiv
in your server.rb).

Dan DeLeo

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> Ringo
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