[chef] Re: Searching files/ to see if file exists

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 5/2/14, 9:20 AM, Julio Lajara wrote:
> Hi all, I need to determine if a file is included/exists in the 
> files/* subdir under any appropriate folder for the current node, is 
> there any way I can do this? I looked through the chef code and see 
> theres a get_filename method as part of the cookbook code, is this 
> usable from within cookbooks and if so can someone point to an example 
> of how it would be used?
>
> Thanks,
It might be better to know exactly what you're trying to accomplish in 
context.  You're going to run into lazy cookbook loading issues almost 
right away and in general the solution you're heading towards is likely 
to be fairly brittle.  There might be a better way to solve the bigger 
problem that you're trying to solve that doesn't go down this hole.  And 
if there isn't a better way to solve the bigger problem then there might 
be better helper methods to engineer and give to you to make it easier 
to do things like this...