[chef] Re: Re: Use template or cookbook_file resources to put something in a user's home directory?

["Moser, Kevin" < >]

Dir.home will give you the current users home directory.


Dir.home(user) will give you the home directory of the user specified


On 1/7/14 8:24 AM, "Julian C. Dunn" 
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>On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Stephen Corbesero
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>> Is there any way to use the template and cookbook_file resources to put
>> files in or under a user¹s home directory without hardcoding the
>>directory
>> as ³/home/username²?
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>> Is there some way to get the chef-client to interpret ~username like the
>> shell does?
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>I think File.expand_path should do it?
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>irb(main):002:0> File.expand_path('~juliandunn')
>=> "/Users/juliandunn"
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>- Julian
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