[chef] Re: Need to pass argument from recipe to another in cookbook

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:56 AM,  
<
 >
 wrote:

> I had a cookbook with multiple recipes, in one of them having resources like
>
> Path /root/chef-repo/cookbooks/rollback/recipes/default.rb
>
> ruby_block "Create a directry for backup" do
>   block do
>   FileUtils.mkdir node['backup_path'] unless Dir.exists? node['backup_path']
>   $s=FileUtils.mkdir node['new_directory']
>   puts "directory#{$s}"
>   end
> end
>
>
> I need to pass this global variable $s  to another chef resources in another
> recipe like Path /root/chef-repo/cookbooks/rollback/recipes/xxxx.rb, if is 
> is
> possible how can i get that value during at run time or in any other way?

I don't understand the complexity in this recipe code. Why a
ruby_block instead of built-in Chef resources? How come you don't just
do

directory node['backup_path'] do
  action :create
end

And if you already have node['new_directory'] as a node attribute, why
can't you just consume it from the other recipe?

- Julian

-- 
[ Julian C. Dunn 
<
 >
          * Sorry, I'm    ]
[ WWW: http://www.aquezada.com/staff/julian    * only Web 1.0  ;]
[ gopher://sdf.org/1/users/keymaker/           * compliant!    ;]
[ PGP: 91B3 7A9D 683C 7C16 715F 442C 6065 D533 FDC2 05B9       ]