Hi, this makes me cringe a little :-)
You're both not completely off track, but then there's much better option. As custom facts always run from a Puppet context, you have access to Puppet's own API. Say a fact needs to incorporate the value of the 'server' setting in some way: setcode do server_name_setting = Puppet['server'] # ... code that uses the value end HTH, Felix On 10/17/2014 06:19 PM, Craig White wrote: > It would seem to me that I would not eagerly use another gem to obtain > information from a file when ruby has File and vast string compare > options but the choice is yours. Then there are tools like augeas (sp?). > > Gems can be managed as a package using the gem provider so it's fairly > easy to get puppet clients to install gems and note that facts run > first so the first pass, the fact will not have information as the gem > would likely have to be installed and the second pass, the fact can be > derived. > > On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:03:36 AM UTC-7, Mark Rosedale wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm looking to implement a custom fact that tells my puppet config > if a machine is configured a certain way. What I want to do is > parse the configuration's ini file and see if a certain setting is > turned on or off. I'm looking at using the ruby gem inifile > <https://rubygems.org/gems/inifile>to do this. > > Couple of questions. I'm assuming that facts, unlike functions, > are run on the node, correct? So if that is the case what is the > best way to distribute this gem to all hosts? > > Final question. Am I barking up the wrong tree trying to use this > library to parse an ini file? Has anyone else done this type of > thing? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/545A9689.2030801%40Alumni.TU-Berlin.de. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
