[chef] Re: Cookbook dependency graphing

[Ranjib Dey < >]

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do it!

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:00 PM, steve . < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Not sure if anyone's already doing something like this, but I made some REALLY MINOR modifications to the most ancient and venerable Ruby depgraph tool and got it parsing cookbook metadata instead of C# code and installed gems.

http://github.com/leftathome/depgraph

Default behavior is to parse, fire up graphviz and show you a dependency graph.  That's fine but I wanted it as a JSON object.

I added the -json switch to allow you to generate an object that looks like this:

{ "cookbook" : [ "dependency1", "dependency2"],

 ...

}

Hope someone out there finds this useful.