simple ruby script to find "non-frozen" cookbooks on a chef-server

find-non-frozen-cookbooks.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'chef/config'
require 'chef/log'
require 'chef/rest'
require 'chef/cookbook_version'

chef_server_url = ARGV[0]
client_name = ARGV[1]
signing_key_filename=ARGV[2]

rest = Chef::REST.new(chef_server_url, client_name, signing_key_filename)
cookbooks = rest.get_rest("/cookbooks?all_versions")

found_nonfrozen_cookbooks = []

cookbooks.keys.each do |name|
  cookbook_versions = rest.get_rest("/cookbooks/#{name}")

  cookbook_versions[name]["versions"].each do |cv|
    print '.'
    version = cv["version"]
    cookbook = rest.get_rest("/cookbooks/#{name}/#{version}")

    found_nonfrozen_cookbooks << "#{name}/#{version}" unless cookbook.frozen_version?
  end
end

puts "\nRESULTS: "

puts found_nonfrozen_cookbooks.join('\n')