CHEF-3345 Repro

knife-role-loader.rb

require 'chef/role'

# The gist files name role-* should be moved into a directory named 'roles'.

role_path = Chef::Config[:role_path] = "./roles"

Dir.glob(File.join(role_path, '*.{rb,json}')) do |role_file|
  rolefilename = File.basename(role_file, File.extname(role_file))
  role = Chef::Role.from_disk(rolefilename)

  puts role.inspect
  puts role.class

end

output of ruby knife-role-loader.rb

role[rbrole]
Chef::Role
{"name"=>"jsonrole", "description"=>"Sample json role", "run_list"=>["recipe[ntp]"]}
Hash

roles-jsonrole.json

{
  "name" : "jsonrole",
  "description" : "Sample json role",
  "run_list" : ["recipe[ntp]"]
}

roles-rbrole.rb

name "rbrole"
description "Some ruby role"
run_list("recipe[ntp]")