[chef] Re: Re: Re: re-opening resources at run-time

[Adam Jacob < >]

r = resouces(:template, "jira")
r.whatever(new stuff)

Adam

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Bryan Berry 
<
 >
 wrote:
> one option is to create a new lwrp  tomcat_svc that would do something
> similar
>
> tomcat_svc "jira" do
>    subscribes :restart, (resources => [ template1, template2, templaten ]
>    action :start
> end
>
> this lwrp would require the original tomcat lwrp to keep a list of config
> resources it creates. then the tomcat_svc  interrogates the tomcat resource
> for its config files and subscribes to them.
>
> this blog post has thrown me for a loop and making me rethink everything
> http://blog.nistu.de/2012/03/04/reusability-in-configuration-management-systems/
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Bryan Berry 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>>
>> I can't because I have to have all of those templates in place before
>> starting tomcat for the first time
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Brian Akins 
>> <
 >
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 4, 2012, at 6:29 AM, Bryan Berry wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > run_time "tomcat[jira]" do
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >    subscribes :restart, resources(templates => ['jdbc configuration',
>>> > 'jira properties'] ), :immediately
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >    action :start
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > end
>>> >
>>>
>>> Can you just use notifies for those templates?
>>>
>>> Like:
>>>
>>>
>>> file "jira properties" do  path
>>> "#{t.base}/webapps/jira/WEB-INF/classes/jira-application.properties"
>>>  content <<-EOS
>>>
>>>  # generated by Chef, don't touch!
>>>
>>>
>>>  jira.home = /home/jira
>>>
>>>
>>>  EOS
>>>
>>> notifies :restart, "tomcat[jira]", :immediately
>>>
>>> owner jira_user
>>>
>>> end
>>
>>
>



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