[chef] Re: Fwd: Search in environment file?

[Ranjib Dey < >]

you can do it, but it will be hack. The environment file thats being uploaded to chef server is not in ruby, its infact a serializable file (json), ruby -> json conversion is done by knife from the triggering point (workstation from where knife environment from file is being used). 

now the hack:

q = Chef::Search::Query.new

nodes = q.search(:node, 'foo:bar' )

we can provide more detailed example if you can tell us exactly what search you want..

hth

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Gregory Patmore < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to run a search call within an environment file(ruby version not json)? If anyone can point me toward a doc or a snippet it would be a huge help to me.
>
> I know this is not a great or recommended way to do this, but I'm stuck unwinding a pre-existing chef setup, and it's getting tedious to add each entry manually when we're adding 30-40 nodes to a cluster at a time.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give,
> Greg
>
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