simple chef template tester

cheftest.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'erubis'

#Support the the node attribute as used in Chef
module ChefContext
  def node
    return @node if @node
    raise "Could not find a value for node. Include a node variable in the context if you plan to use it."
  end 
end 
::Erubis::Context.send(:include, ChefContext)

node = {}
node[:fqdn] = "mydomain.com"
node['authorization'] = {}
node['authorization']['sudo'] = {}
node['authorization']['sudo']['groups'] = Array.new
node['authorization']['sudo']['users'] = Array.new
node['authorization']['sudo']['users'] = ["one","flew","over"]
node['authorization']['sudo']['passwordless'] = false

input = File.read('sudoers.erb')
eruby = Erubis::Eruby.new(input)

context = {:node => node,
                 :sudoers_users => node['authorization']['sudo']['users'],
                 :sudoers_groups => node['authorization']['sudo']['groups'],
                 :passwordless => node['authorization']['sudo']['passwordless']}

puts eruby.evaluate(context)