local_scope.rb

Puppet::Parser::Functions.newfunction(:local_scope,
  :type => :rvalue,
  :doc => <<-'EOS'
    Generates the local scope as a hash. This allows you to use epp functions more
    or less like erb templates by passing local scope as the parameters argument.
    e.g., `content => epp('mymodname/template.epp', local_scope() )`
    EOS
) do |args|
  scope = self.to_hash
  scope.reject! { |key,val| scope['facts'].include? key }
  scope.delete('trusted')
  scope.delete('facts')
  scope
end