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

[Stephen Corbesero < >]

Can I put that in the name of a resource?

For example,

cookbook_file "#{Dir.home(someuser)}/xyzzy" do
  ...
End


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Stephen Corbesero, Performance Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: Moser, Kevin 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 11:27 AM
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Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Use template or cookbook_file resources to put 
something in a user's home directory?

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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