Chef - Redis version attribute to use in a wrapper cookbook

redis.rb

require "net/http"
require "uri"
require "json"

redis_info = URI.parse("http://www.askcerebro.com/redis")

response = Net::HTTP.get_response(redis_info)

info = JSON.parse(response.body)
redis_version = info['redis']['stable']['version']


default[:redis][:server][:addr]    = "127.0.0.1"
default[:redis][:server][:version] = redis_version.chomp!