[chef] Re: Re: Re: Couple of test-kitchen questions

[Jesse Nelson < >]

As a side note is anyone actively working on abstracting the
cook-management out on kitchen right now?(KITCHEN-9). I Started
looking into it, but don't want to step on toes.

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 7:42 PM, David Petzel 
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> Thanks for the info Joshua
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>> What about simply leveraging your shell?
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>> bundle exec kitchen test && bundle exec kitchen destroy
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>> Then the environment would only be torn down if the run was successful.
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> The tearing down isn't so much my problem as having all the VMs up and
> running at once. Unless I'm misunderstanding, I believe the command line
> above would still in result in all VMs running at the same time by the end
> of the successful run? Basically what I'm looking for is on a successful run
> of a configuration on a platform, shutdown (not destroy) that platform,
> before moving onto the next
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>> Validating ruby files is the knife cookbook test command that checks
>> syntax of the rb and erb. That should be pretty fast, though as it stores
>> the checksums with a time stamp and only checks files that have changed.
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> I probably should clarify that I'm on a windows workstation, so Rubyin
> general is just obnoxiously slow to start at times, so I think the syntax
> check times are more a result of how long it takes ruby to initialize on my
> workstation than the checks themselves. Whatever the cause of the slowness
> (and the quantify of it), it would be nice to be able to just "skip it" when
> desired.
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>> There seem to be other opportunities for optimization, though.
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>> 3. The test-kitchen cookbook itself does some work that may not be
>> required, such as using the rvm cookbook and installing fit and other 
>> things
>> beforehand.
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> I don't mind the work that is done, and I don't want to skip it all the time
> (which can be done fairly easily via the Kitchenfile, but I'd like the
> ability to skip on demand. I.E., while iterating, say "don't do all the cool
> stuff, just provision.". Its obviously not a huge deal, and the time that
> test-kitchen saves dwarfs this by orders of magnitude, so I don' want it to
> sound like a complaint per say, but rather just exploring tiny time savers
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