[chef] Re: Installing large numbers of packages

[Sean OMeara < >]

If you'd like to be less verbose, you can take advantage of the fact
that you don't have to specify a resource's default action, which in
the case of package, is :install.

package "foo"
package "bar"
package "bazz"
package "buzz"
package "bizz"
package "bim"
package "bam"
package "bop"

-s

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Matt Palmer 
<
 >
 wrote:
> I'm getting my first chef recipe in order, a simple one to prep a
> workstation -- which is mostly "install this giant list of packages".
>
> I was surprised to find that the simple, obvious way to do this:
>
>    package %w{foo bar baz} do
>        action :install
>    end
>
> Didn't work.  Resources don't accept an array as the namevar to do the
> obvious thing.  Instead, I've got to do either:
>
>    package "foo" do
>        action :install
>    end
>
>    package "bar" do
>        action :install
>    end
>
>    package "baz" do
>        action :install
>    end
>
> Which is ridiculously verbose, or else:
>
>    %w{foo bar baz}.each do |pkg|
>        package pkg do
>            action :install
>        end
>    end
>
> Which doesn't do anything for my "but you don't need to learn *much*
> Ruby" claims to the rest of the team, and still isn't as compact and
> clean as it could be.
>
> Am I missing something obvious, or is one of the above options really
> the recommended way to create big lists of resources?
>
> Thanks,
> - Matt
>