On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:29:52 PM UTC-5, Jeff McCune wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Nan Liu <> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:34 AM, ZJE <> wrote: >> > I'd like to reuse the same ruby code in a type across all the >> providers. For >> > the type I'm writing, a certain portion of the "exists?" method would be >> > repeated across all providers. From looking at the documentation, >> > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_types.html, it's not quite >> clear >> > how I can accomplish this. I've looked at writing a function, but that >> > seems to be for a larger scope than I'd like (only the providers in that >> > module would need this code) and requires a restart of the puppet >> master. >> >> Look at puppetlabs registry provider[1] for an example where >> modules/registry is shared between registry_key and registry_value. > > > We've actually got this wrong in the registry module currently. Shared > utility code should not go into the Puppet namespace at all. > > The convention we've "standardized" [1] on is: > > "Start with PuppetX, put the CamelCase of your author name (from the > Modulefile), then put the actual CamelCase of your module name" > > So the registry module should be PuppetX::PuppetLabs::Registry living in > '<modulepath>/registry/lib/puppet_x/puppet_labs/registry.rb' > > Puppet::Modules::Registry is a bad example and should not be followed. > > [1] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/14149 > > -Jeff >
Thanks Nan and Jeff for the replies! I'm new to both puppet and ruby, so let me sketch out what I'm thinking I should do based on the replies. Let's say I'm creating a type FOO in module MODULE. I should then create a file in $confdir/modules/MODULE/lib/puppet/shared.rb Inside this shared.rb, I would then implement my shared methods in the PuppetX::ZJE::FOO module For some additional info, I'm using puppet 3.0.0rc3 Thanks again for all the help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/ocg5H5bzU58J. 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.
