[chef] organising multiple products in chef

[Joshua Moore < >]

Hi I am new to Chef and trying to figure out how to best organise our servers 
and products into the chef environment.  I work for a startup company that 
has 3 products, all of the products are ruby on rails web applications.  So 
each one is very similar but also they are all also somewhat unique.  An 
example of this is some run in Jruby some run in Cruby some require sphinx 
some do not.  

I am trying to figure out how to best organise these different projects 
within Chef.  I am thinking about creating an organisation for each on in 
managed.opscode and then share the shared cookbooks but recreate things like 
roles and data bags for each different product.  But, before I go down this 
path I wanted to check and see if this is the correct way to organise chef or 
is there a different mechanism that I am missing that would be better suited 
to this type of organisation?


Thanks,


Josh Moore
Director of Engineering
resumecompanion.com
(301) 685-6040