The Facter.add scaffolding isn't required for external facts. That's
actually a key part of the design.

Here's an example vagrant environment with external facts similar to
your demo code:

https://github.com/nrvale0/vagrant-extfacts-demo

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Shark Laser <[email protected]> wrote:
> The simpler ruby script you gave still exhibits the same behavior.  I'm sure
> the code in the facts I am using is correct, so I don't think it is a matter
> of their content.   As I mentioned I have literally copied examples from the
> tutorial and elsewhere.
>
> If I run facter --debug all of the facts give the same error message I give
> above that they were parsed but returned an empty dataset.
>
> If I run puppet agent --test then it is as if my fact did not exist.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 4:40:10 PM UTC-8, Nathan Valentine wrote:
>>
>> You are making external facts too complicated. More like this:
>>
>>
>>  hello.rb
>>  -----------
>>  #!/usr/bin/env ruby
>>  puts "hello=Hello, World!"
>>
>>
>> hello.yaml
>> ---------------
>> ---
>> hello='Hello, World!'
>>
>>
>> https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html#external-facts
>>
>>
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