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Mr.
Mr.

Reputation: 10122

chef extending recipes' libraries (with testing)

I have a chef recipe name my_recipe and I would like to add a library to it to assist me in getting some stuff done, while still being able to run chefspec smoothly. I read the extend recipe documentation, but couldn't find how to extends (or dynamically create) a class within the recipe namespace.

here is a snippet:

# my_cookbook/recipes/my_recipe.rb
foo = MyRecipe::MyClass.foo


# my_cookbook/libraries/my_class.rb
class Chef
  class Recipe
    class MyRecipe
      unless defined?(Chef::Recipe::MyRecipe::MyClass)
        class MyClass
          def self.foo
            # do stuff
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

what am I missing? how chef translate a dsl recipe name my_recipe to a recipe object (MyRecipe)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 316

Answers (1)

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54249

There is no such translation. I don't really understand where you got this whole class structure for. What you want is just:

module MyHelpers
  def self.foo

And then MyHelpers.foo in your recipe.

Upvotes: 0

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