[chef] Re: how to generate a random integer in a template.erb file

[Graham Christensen < >]

Hi David,

You can use Ruby to pass that in: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/198460/how-to-get-a-random-number-in-ruby

Note however, that if you generate the random number each time you try to write the template - it will rewrite the file each run. A more stable option would be storing this as a node attribute, and re-using it each time afterwards.

Graham Christensen

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Graham Christensen

On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 1:41 PM, David Montgomery wrote:

Hi,

I am not a ruby expert but in a template I need to generate a random integer e.g. between 0 and 10000.

How would I do that?

thanks