[chef] Re: Customizing the templates of a community cookbook?

[Steffen Gebert < >]

Hi,

I used to use chef-rewind until I got the tip form Joshua to just access
the resource collection via resources().

So, I'd be interested in what's the benefit of the chef-rewind gem?

Thanks for explaining
Steffen

On 5/26/13 2:40 PM, Zac Stevens wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Morgan Blackthorne
> <
 >wrote:
> 
>> What's the "right" way to handle this? I'm looking to migrate over to
>> using Berkshelf and something that I'm coming across is that I've got a
>> package or two where I've customized the templates generated by a community
>> cookbook for my specific use (either via OS or host directories).
>>
>> Is it better to create a wrapper cookbook, or is there some other way to
>> handle this that I'm missing? I found a previous thread on this here:
>> http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2012-07/msg00038.html, but it
>> looks like whatever scenario they were referencing is no longer in the
>> documentation. (Not sure if it didn't last from the wiki -> doc conversion,
>> or if it had been removed from the wiki prior to that.)
>>
> 
> I was able to load the old page using the wayback machine (
> http://web.archive.org/web/20120624062311/http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Templates),
> but it isn't too helpful in this case.
> 
> You'll need a wrapper cookbook which contains your local template, with a
> recipe that re-opens the resource in the original cookbook and changes its
> "cookbook" parameter to point to your wrapper cookbook.  Joshua Timberman
> has a blog post describing this, though his example is changing service
> resources:
> 
> http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/11/19/chef-repository-berkshelf-conversion/
> 
> If you'd prefer a little sugar, the chef-rewind gem offers your exact use
> case as an example: https://github.com/bryanwb/chef-rewind
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> 
> Zac
>