[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Force recipe to run at the end

[Julien Vehent < >]

On 2012-10-01 21:39, AJ Christensen wrote:
> For structured code like this (requires, includes, extends.. code that
> spreads multiple files..) I'd suggest moving it out to a Ruby Gem and
> using the chef_gem installation method / compile time access.
>
> As Jay mentioned, the libraries are shipped from the server and
> evaluated as they are received (IIRC) so you can have potential
> ordering issues there when requiring a file that doesn't exist, or
> relying on a file to be autoloaded, etc.
>
> Here's an additional example:
>
> http://rubygems.org/gems/flock_of_chefs
> https://github.com/chrisroberts/flock_of_chefs/
>
> https://github.com/chrisroberts/cookbook-flock_of_chefs/blob/master/recipes/default.rb
>
> Cheers,
>
> --AJ

Thanks for the explanation, AJ.
I decided to take a simpler approach and store the exported function in the 
same module as the internal function. It works fine, and does what I want.
https://github.com/jvehent/AFW/commit/2117d19d64c568985eae5a855c11e42167d2e41e

Cheers,
Julien