On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> another option that I use is to extend the string class in ruby, that would
> allow you to do something like:
> Facter.memorysize.to_gb
> in order to do that add somewhere (e.g. before your custom fact)
> class String
> def to_gb
> begin
> value,unit=self.match(/(\d+|.+) ([KMG]B)$/i)[1..2]
> case unit.to_sym
> when nil, :B, :byte then (value.to_f / 1000_000_000)
> when :GB, :G, :gigabyte then value.to_f
> when :MB, :M, :megabyte then (value.to_f / 1000)
> when :KB, :K, :kilobyte, :kB then (value.to_f / 1000_000)
> else raise "Unknown unit: #{unit.inspect}!"
> end
> rescue
> raise "Unknown string"
> end
> end
> end
> Ohad
I'd rather look into fixing the problem than doing code monkeypatching
in everyday environments and require folks to write facts to get this
data.
Let's look at making things like this available today in facter.
Patch material?
I generally think facts shouldn't include units anyway, yet we don't
want to break existing things that depend on them.
--Michael
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