[chef] Re: Re: Conditionnally loading a MySQL database

[Benoit Caron < >]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Bryan McLellan < "> > wrote:

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Benoit Caron < "> > wrote:
> Anybody know of a cookbook that would allow to load a SQL dump from a
> recipes, but only if the databases is still empty?

This recipe creates a database if it doesn't exist:

https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/blob/master/wordpress/recipes/default.rb#L76

Great! 

Way more neat than what I was about to do :\

 

Also take a look at my MySQL Ruby example in this blog post for a
larger example:

http://blog.loftninjas.org/2011/02/16/the-power-of-chef-and-ruby/

The lesson learned: use the force (or ruby blocks, whichever are available).

Thanks!