Evil Chef

Evil Chef is a library that allows running Chef as a library from other applications.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'evil-chef'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install evil-chef

Usage

Require the library, instanciate a runner objet, then use the recipe_eval or manage_resource methods. E.g.:

require 'evil-chef'
chef_runner = EvilChef::Runner.new
chef_runner.recipe_eval do
    package "ntp"
    service "ntp" do
        action [:start, :enable]
    end
end

chef_runner.manage_resource(:service, "cups", :disable)

The Runner object will run Ohai when initializing, so init is a little slow. The runner objet also keeps the state of the node object between recipe runs, accessible via the node attribute.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request