line cookbook

Motivation

Quite often, the need arises to do line editing instead of managing an entire file with a template resource. This cookbook supplies various resources that will help you do this.

Usage

Add "depends 'line'" to your cookbook's metadata.rb to gain access to the resoures.

append_if_no_line "make sure a line is in dangerfile" do
  path "/tmp/dangerfile"
  line "HI THERE I AM STRING"
end

replace_or_add "spread the love" do
  path "/some/file"
  pattern "Why hello there.*"
  line "Why hello there, you beautiful person, you."
end

delete_lines "remove hash-comments from /some/file" do
  path "/some/file"
  pattern "^#.*"
end

add_to_list "add entry to a list"
  path "/some/file"
  pattern "People to call: "
  delim [","]
  entry "Bobby"
end

Notes

So far, the only resource implemented are

append_if_no_line
replace_or_add
delete_lines
add_to_list

add_to_list delim must be an array of 1 or 2 muli-character elements. If one delimiter is given, it is assumed that either the delimiter or the given search pattern will proceed each entry and each entry will be followed by either the delimeter or a new line character: delim [","] People to call: Joe, Bobby, Karen People to call: Joe, Karen, Bobby People to call: Bobby, Joe, Karen

  If two delimiters are given, they will suround each entry. For Example:
  delim ["(,",",)"]
      People to call: (,Joe,)(,Bobby,)(,Karen,)

More to follow.

Recipes

tester - A recipe to exercise the resources

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