[chef] Re: how to interchange data between different recipes on open source chef

[David Petzel < >]

I have not done it myself, but I did think editing databags from a recipe was possible, and is documented here: http://docs.opscode.com/essentials_data_bags.html#create-and-edit

If you don't need the data to persist across chef runs (IE you just need to exchange it during the course of a single run) I have used the `node.run_state` variable.

so something like:

recipe1.rb:

  node.run_state[:my_data] = "Hello"

recipe2.rb:

  puts node.run_state[:my_data]

I have two recipes my open source chef server and need to interchange some data between them. I wondering how to do that. If someone give a hint, it will much appreciated.

PS: I tried to write the data into a databag, but failed as below. It looks like recipes save data into a databag is allowed.

Net::HTTPServerException
------------------------
405 "Method Not Allowed"