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### definition
#
# Cookbook Name:: example
# Definition:: example_config_geocoders
#

define :example_config_geocoders, :geocoders_list => nil, :app_config_dir => nil do
  app_config_dir = params[:app_config_dir]
  geocoders_list = params[:geocoders_list]

mdkent

### definition
#
# Cookbook Name:: example
# Definition:: example_config_geocoders
#
 
define :example_config_geocoders, :geocoders_list => nil, :app_config_dir => nil do
  app_config_dir = params[:app_config_dir]
  geocoders_list = params[:geocoders_list]
 

mdkent

ips = {}
ips[:internal] = node[:ipaddress]

eth = node[:network][:interfaces][:eth1][:addresses]
eth.each_key do |i|
  if eth[i][:family] == "inet"
    ips[:external] = i
  end
end

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'baseline' role override_attributes:
 21   :demo => {
 22     :hi => {
 23       :cow => 2
 24     }
 25   }

'specific' role override_attribute
 29   :demo => {
 30     :hi => {

mdkent

require 'rubygems'
require 'chef'

# good!
x = {
  :first_level => {
    :one => 1
  }
}

mdkent

require 'rubygems'
require 'deep_merge'

# one level
x = {
  :first_level => {
    :one => 1
  }
}

mdkent

Vanilla CentOS install, then go through:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installation+on+RHEL+and+CentOS+5+with+RPMs

Opscode chef cookbook + this patch:
http://github.com/mdkent/cookbooks/commit/4a7ec78dcfd53be2e9f2a37c80a3ddd411d82483

With these attributes set:

:init_style => "init",
:path => "/var/lib/chef",

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{ 
  "run_list": [ 
    "role[baseline]", 
    "role[baseline-pvoffice]", 
    "role[chef-server]", 
    "role[chef-server-mkent]", 
    "role[baseline-runlast-cleanup]" 
  ] 
}

mdkent

# cookbook/ftp_stuff/definitions/ftp_user.rb
define :ftp_user, :password => nil do
  begin
    r = resources(:template => "/etc/ftp_passwd")
  rescue
    r = template "/etc/ftp_passwd" do
      owner "root"
      group "root"
      mode "0600"
      cookbook "ftppasswd.erb"

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ips = {}
ips[:internal] = node[:ipaddress]

if node[:network][:interfaces].include?("eth1") 
  eth = node[:network][:interfaces][:eth1][:addresses]
  eth.each_key do |i| 
    if eth[i][:family] == "inet"
      ips[:external] = i
    end
  end