[chef] Re: Re: changing the token delimiters inside the templates

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, December 21, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Vladimir Girnet wrote:

Chef is using standard Ruby ERB for templates - http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.8.7/libdoc/erb/rdoc/ERB.html

On Dec 21, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Maven User wrote:

Hi all -

Is there a way to change the token delimiters chef uses inside the templates to some other format?

Just curious - this would make my life 300% easier if this were true...

Chef actually uses erubis which is mostly compatible but has some extra features:

http://www.kuwata-lab.com/erubis/users-guide.html

If you're looking to, say, include a literal `<%` in your output, according to the docs this can be done with `<%%`.

The docs also explain how to change the "embedding pattern" but chef doesn't expose any way to change it:

http://www.kuwata-lab.com/erubis/users-guide.02.html#tut-pattern

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Daniel DeLeo