[chef] Re: Loading a text of json file into a hash every run

[Igor Serebryany < >]

david, 

you can do this with ruby pretty easily; looks like your file is json so just do this somewhere in your recipe:

contents = File.read(filename)

hash = JSON.parse(contents)

however, you should probably be storing that data in chef attributes from the beginning. it's just as easy to edit those as it is to edit a file, and a lot more flexible.

--igor

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:42 AM, David Montgomery < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

I have a file that on every run needs to load a cookbook into a hash so I can use in a subsequent template.

So, how do Load e.g.

{
   "a": "b",
   "c": "d"
}

from a recipe into a hash from a text file?  Ruby block?  I perform python but what ever works.

Thanks