you are missing the type in the function.. For example:

newfunction(:func, :type =>rvalue) do...

Cheers,
Ohad

On 12/9/08, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Greetings, puppeteers. As per yesterday's discussion on if a file
> exists on the pupper master, I decided to write a custom function. I'm
> prolific in a lot of languages unfortunately, ruby isn't one of them.
> Here's my function:
>
> module Puppet::Parser::Functions
>
>   newfunction(:file_exists) do |args|
>     filename = args[0]
>     return File.exists?(filename)
>   end
>
> end
>
>
> That seems straightforward but it barfs with the following error:
>
> err: Could not retrieve configuration: Function 'file_exists' does not
> return a value
>
> Seriously? The exists instance method is a boolean. What do you mean
> it doesn't return a value?
>
> I humored it with this version:
>
> module Puppet::Parser::Functions
>
>   newfunction(:file_exists) do |args|
>     filename = args[0]
>     if File.exists?(filename)
>       return true
>     else
>       return false
>     end
>   end
>
> end
>
> But the results were identical. Any thoughts for a ruby noob.
>
> Jeff
> >
>

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