Greenspun's tenth rule

load.rb

# See https://github.com/coderanger/chef-dialects-testbed, https://github.com/chef/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc036-dialects.md
require "edn"
require "json"

open("recipe.rb", "w") do |f|
  EDN.read("(#{open('recipe.edn').read})").each do |resource|
    type = resource.shift.to_s
    name = resource.shift.to_s
    properties = resource.shift || {}

    f.write "#{type} '#{name}' do\n"
    properties.each do |property, value|
      f.write "  #{property} #{value.to_json}\n"
    end
    f.write "\nend\n"
  end
end

recipe.edn

(file "hello.txt" {
  :content "hello, world!"
})
(directory "hello")

recipe.rb

file 'hello.txt' do
  content "hello, world!"

end
directory 'hello' do

end