[chef] "yum install xxxx" or "apt-get install xxxx" analogy for chef?

[Tom < >]

Hi,

For our developer boxes, typically the users won't know chef, and won't 
have a locally configured knife, and these guys would be used to 
installing tomcat or some package using the distro specific tool 
(apt/yum/emerge).

However for a bunch of packages/services we have chef recipes 
specifically to get tomcat6 or others onto CentOS 5.6 boxes e.g. 
recipe[tomcat::tomcat6]

Obviously its possible to create a /etc/chef/tomcat.json file and run it 
as chef-client -j /etc/chef/tomcat.json such as
{  "run_list" : ["recipe[tomcat::tomcat6]"]  }

Or even to open "shef -z" session and apply the recipe interactively. Or 
even to run knife as the chef-client user with the client.pem and 
client.rb file...

However I am looking for something that can be easily applied as a 
one-liner... does such a thing exist as a plugin for chef-client?


chef-client -r "recipe[somecookbook::somerecipe]" would be perfect... ;-)


Thanks
Tom