[chef] Re: Re: Trying to leave some Ruby inside a finished installed Chef template.

[Darron Froese < >]

Perfect - I knew I was missing something - just couldn't figure out what.

Thanks.

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Daniel Condomitti 
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 wrote:
> If the entire thing is plain text use cookbook_file instead of template.
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> On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Darron Froese wrote:
>
> Have a rails database.yml installed via chef:
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> production:
> adapter: mysql2
> encoding: utf8
> reconnect: false
> database: gitlabhq_production
> pool: 5
> username: <%= ENV['PROD_DB_USER'] %>
> password: <%= ENV['PROD_DB_PASSWORD'] %>
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> I want to to look like this when it's installed - but Chef is
> rendering the ENV vars during the install.
>
> I'd rather not have that done - just like to use the ENV variables the
> whole time.
>
> I'd really like chef to just install this - treat is as a text file
> and just install. Is that possible?
>
> Any tips? I've looked through the Chef and Erubis docs as well as done
> lots of Googling.
>
> Also posted here: https://gist.github.com/4496942
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