On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Jeff Falgout <jtfalg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Ross McKerchar > <ross.mckerc...@sophos.com> wrote: > > >> As I'm not great at ruby, I find writing facts and distributing them to do a >> really simple thing can be a bit painful. Along these lines what about: >> > > As Luke put it for python - ruby makes my eyes bleed - I struggle > with Ruby a lot and often I give up what I'm trying to do with facts. > >> 1) The option to point facter at a directory and then all the scripts in the >> directory are simply facts (say, factname is scriptname and value is output >> of script). A bit messy but very simple. >> > > Messy - but ohhhh so useful. Even if facter only parses a text file - > removing the Ruby requirement goes a long way in my mind! >
Thinking about this a bit more - I'd probably rely on Facts a whole heck of a lot more - to the point of abusing them. I'm not sure this is the best approach but it'd sure help me get the job done faster. Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
