[chef] Re: Accessing environment variables in Windows

[Paul Morton - BIA < >]

Hello - I am not sure that I understand your first issue. On the second 
issue, there are various ways to access variables. To use environmental vars, 
ruby stores them in a constant ENV which is a has and can be access like 
this: ENV['COMPUTERNAME'].

The recipe is just ruby, so you can create other variables and just use them. 
I.e. 

config_file = "\\\\fileserver\\configs\\#{ENV['COMPUTERNAME']}"

Does that help?

P

On Jan 18, 2012, at 3:14 AM, "Madhurranjan Mohaan" 
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 wrote:

> Hi ,
> 
> I need to access Environment variables in Windows while running the 
> cookbooks. I have had 2 issues with this:
> 1. When I run with powershell and access them using $Env:HOME  ( for 
> example) and run "chef client" manually on the box , it seems to pick it up 
> but when I run it from my CI , it doesn't seem to work since the path seems 
> to change. I have been trying to echo this variable on the console but 
> haven't been successful.  How do we do this ?
> 
> 2. If I am not using the powershell cookbook and I use the "remote_file" or 
> "remote_directory" resource to copy folders ( This works fine when I 
> hardcode the paths) , in that case, how do I access the PATH or the HOME 
> variable ( or basically any other Environment variable ) in my cookbooks?
> 
> Can you shed some light on this ?
> 
> thanks
> Ranjan