Hi,

On 08/30/2014 12:05 AM, Mike Reed wrote:
> network-hostname/role-number (ie. home-elastic-01/work-mysql-02)

are you sure that it's safe to include slashes in host names? Does that
not clash with some internet standard?

> I've written a very simple fact to start with that looks like this
> (please excuse my code as I'm quite new to ruby):

The code looks quite fine, actually. Good work.

> This fact obviously doesn't get me what I want yet, but I'd like to
> test this on a node to ensure basic parsing of the hostname and this
> is where my confusion comes in.  I've created a puppet module called
> sys_ident and added the above code into a file called network_geo.rb,
> located within the /sys_ident/files/ directory.  

That's the mistake right there. The Ruby file needs to be in
sys_ident/lib/facter/.

The Custom Fact documentation links you to
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/plugins_in_modules.html#module-structure
where this is explained.

HTH,
Felix

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