[chef] Re: Re: Re: Writing a Start Handler

[Ranjib Dey < >]

by chef itself, generally. chef_handler cookbook provides a nifty lwrp to do this as well. one pattern i have seen is to drop the file using cookbook_file during compile time, followed by chef_handler lwrp invocation (which will reconfigure chef internally). Its not a clean solution.

I prefer to break down node provisioning in stages (lvm, chef client configs, chef_gems in one , rest of the stuff in another).

cheers

ranjib

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Douglas Garstang < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Ranjib,

How does it get deployed though? Via chef or via other means? What require are you referring to? There is no require in the client.rb file.

Doug.

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Ranjib Dey < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

can be anywhere in you system. if its in arbitrary path, you have to supply the entire path (without .rb extension) in require, if its anywhere in $LOAD_PATH, then just the file name (without the .rb extension).

require 'foo' # if foo.rb is anywhere in $LOAD_PATH

require '/home/doug/foo' # when /home/doug is outside $LOAD_PATH

cheers

ranjib

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Douglas Garstang < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'm trying to write a start handler. I've managed to get

start_handlers << Chef::Reporting::StartHandler.new()

into the client.rb file. Obviously, I need to change the details. Now, I'm reading http://docs.getchef.com/handlers.html and under the 'Reporting' section it talks about how to install the handler, but it doesn't say where the start_handler.rb file goes.

Does it go in a cookbook? This would seem to be a problem to me as the handler needs to be deployed before chef runs.

Doug

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