[chef] Re: auto generating json data

[Seth Vargo < >]

If you want to stay with Ruby, ChefAPI can do this easily: 
https://github.com/sethvargo/chef-api

Thanks,
Seth

On Mar 18, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Noah Kantrowitz 
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> Just use one of the native Chef API clients like Chef itself or PyChef to 
> talk to the chef server from a script.
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> --Noah
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> On Mar 18, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Elvin Abordo 
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>> Hello Chefs,
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>> OPs guy here. 
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>> I'm trying to write a simple tool to auto generate json roles and 
>> environments as manually editing/upping  json files has proven a fruitless 
>> venture for some of my team members. 
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>> I've looked at a couple of OS level tools that might do the trick such as 
>> jsontools and possibly jq. but i'd like to hear some ideas from the 
>> community.
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>> Thanks in advanced. 
>> -- 
>> Elvin Abordo
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