Cowsay Fortunes

README.md

Chef essentials training result

... a cowsay fortune tool

installing (on your chef essentials vm)

curl the silly moo.rb recipe file

curl -o moo.rb https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dayne/3869744e305531fc878d/raw/moo.rb

chef client local mode install it and try it out:

sudo chef-client -z moo.rb 
cowfortune 

usage

cowfortune to get a random cow type with random fortune

cowfortune -l to give yourself a looping cowfortune

cowfortune.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#

$cowfiles = Dir.glob('/usr/share/cowsay/*.cow').collect{ |i| File.basename(i, '.cow') }

def cowfortune
  cf = $cowfiles[rand($cowfiles.size)]
  fortune = `fortune`
  `cowsay -f #{cf} \`fortune\``
end

if ARGV.delete("-l")
  loop do
    system('clear')
    cowfortune
    sleep 10
  end
elsif ARGV.delete("-w")
  require 'sinatra'
  set :port, 8080
  get "/" do
    "<h2><pre>" + 
    `cowfortune` + 
    "</pre></h2>"
  end
else
  puts cowfortune
end

moo.rb

# chef cookbook to install cowsay, fortune, and cowfortune

[ 'cowsay', 'fortune-mod', 'ruby' ].each { |p| package p }

gem_package 'sinatra'

remote_file '/usr/local/bin/cowfortune' do
  source 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dayne/3869744e305531fc878d/raw/cowfortune.rb'
  mode '0755'
  owner 'chef'
  group 'chef'
end