[chef] Re: same Rakefile in multiple cookbook git repos

[Ranjib Dey < >]

capture those common rake tasks in a library, make a gem, use it in your rakefiles.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:05 AM, loafy junk < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

I'm following the single cookbook per git repo pattern.  I use a Rakefile to run tasks for style, unit test, integration tests(local vm/docker or cloud).  I noticed I've got the same Rakefile in many repos now.  If I want to make a change to the Rakefile I'm going to be changing/pushing in many git repos.  I'd like to have a single 'master' Rakefile that each git repo can reference.  Anyone else solved this?

Some ideas I had after searching around the internets are:

- keep Rakefile in its own git repo

THEN

- pull into each cookbook git repo from rake repo

  - how do you manage this? 

    - I've seen git-submodules mentioned, not in a kind light 

    - tools like giternal, braid, ...

    - add a rake task to Rakefile so it can self update, kind of like this: https://github.com/cloudware-cookbooks/skeleton/blob/master/Rakefile

OR

- pull Rakefile from artifact repo(nexus, artifactory, etc). It is pushed to artifact repo whenever changes are made in rake.repo

Thanks.

-Maciej