[chef] Re: Re: not able to run command in ruby block

[Douglas Thrift < >]

He should probably use mixlib-shellout, but the backticks are inside of
the ruby_block's block so they are evaluated at converge time. Are you
actually sure that it isn't printing out? You should probably use
Chef::Log.info rather than puts.

Douglas William Thrift
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On 10/29/2013 4:50 PM, Sean OMeara wrote:
> Your backticks are being evaluatied during the compilation phase of the
> chef-client run.
> You want this: https://github.com/opscode/mixlib-shellout
> 
> -s
> 
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Manoj Thakkar 
> <
 
> <mailto:
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>  wrote:
> 
>     HI, this is what my code looks like , somehow the #{host} below is
>     not replaced correctly in the grep,
> 
>     any clues why ? 
>      
> 
>      ruby_block "acc-deploy-host" do
>      block do
>      host=`hostname -s`
>      node.set[:acc_deploy] = `cat /local_app/account-rest.properties |
>     *grep -i "#{host}"* | cut -d":" -f2 `
>      puts "value is #{node['acc_deploy']}"
>     end
>      end
> 
>     Thanks
>     Manoj
> 
>