[chef] Re: Using Minitest for "Other" Resources

[David Petzel < >]

Any chance, someone has any advice for me on this? I've restored to doing a system call and gem list as a totally hack workaround, given the multitude of ways it could not work right, but my ruby skillz are not top notch, and I'm struggling to understand how I might expose the resource for testing like shown below.

Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:36 AM, < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I'm not having much luck in finding an
answer.

I've been using minitests for a short while now in my recipes, so I have a
basic understanding of how it works.  What I'm trying to figure out is how to
test a resource that is not one of the pre-defined ones here:
https://github.com/calavera/minitest-chef-handler/blob/master/lib/minitest-chef-handler/resources.rb#L31

Specifically what I'm trying to do is something like:
chef_gem("blah").must_be_installed

Whats the best/proper way to be able to that? I tried the above, and it of
course didn't work.  I was also trying to see if I could use the pre-defined
package resource and specify the provider, like you might do in a recipe,
without success.