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

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote:

> Ranjib,
> 
> You said that using chef_handler is not an idea solution. If we look at the 
> alternatives, I still don't understand where to put the files.
Anywhere on the filesystem. If you want to package it up and share it, then 
you can create a rubygem, but this is overkill for many use cases.
 
> You mentioned a require statement. There's no require statement in the 
> client.rb file, so I don't know where that's supposed to go.

You add it yourself, at the top of the file.
 
> If the files are present on the AMI before chef runs, I don't know where to 
> place these files. Documentation would be immensely helpful.
> 
> Douglas.
Docs with some examples:

http://docs.getchef.com/handlers.html#id2 ;

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Daniel DeLeo