[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Listing files in cookbook/files/default/

[Adam Jacob < >]

Yep. You can do this:

run_context.cookbook_collection["COOKBOOKNAME"].template_filenames

Which will result in an array of filenames. If you had
'default/foo.rb' and 'default/bar.rb', you'll get:

[ 'foo.rb', 'bar.rb' ]

Should give you what you want, with a bit of munging.

Best,
Adam

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Jason J. W. Williams
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 wrote:
> Thanks Adam. I'm trying to avoid hardcoding a list of templates into
> my recipe, and instead introspect a sub-directory off templates/ to
> auto-discover new files. Tried this with cookbook files instead of
> templates, but those get cleaned out of the cache. Is there any
> reliable way to introspect the authoritative contents of a templates/
> subdirectory?
>
> -J
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Adam Jacob 
> <
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>  wrote:
>> When the template is called.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Jason J. W. Williams
>> <
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>>  wrote:
>>> When do templates get cached? When the cookbook is loaded or when the
>>> template is first called?
>>>
>>> -J
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Joshua Timberman 
>>> <
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>>>  wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 24, 2011, at 17:06, "Jason J. W. Williams"
>>>> <
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>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there a better way to dynamically list the contents of the
>>>> <cookbook>/files/default/ directory from a recipe at runtime than
>>>> inspecting that path in /var/chef/cache/cookbooks ?
>>>>
>>>> My concern is that the Chef sometimes removes files from the cache
>>>> that are in the cookbook but it doesn't consider currently needed.
>>>>
>>>> Chef only downloads cookbook_file and template assets if it needs to 
>>>> render
>>>> the target file. Otherwise they are cleaned up at the end of the chef 
>>>> run.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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