Nodebrew Cookbook

Installs and manages your versions of node.js in chef with nodebrew

Usage

Role based example:

run_list(
  'recipe[nodebrew]'
)

override_attributes(
  :nodebrew => {
    :nodes => [
      { :version => '0.11.5' },
      { :version => '0.10.15', :binary => true }
    ],
    :use => '0.10.15',
    :npm => {
      '0.11.5' => [
        'underscore',
        'coffee-script'
      ],
      '0.10.15' => [
        'underscore',
        'async@0.2.9',
        { :name => 'bower', :version => '1.1.2', :action => 'install' }
      ]
    }
  }
)

Requirements

• Chef >= 11.4
• Platform: ubuntu, debian, fedora, centos and redhat
• Cookbook: build-essential and git

Installation

Librarian-Chef is a bundler for your Chef cookbooks. To install Librarian-Chef:

cd chef-repo
gem install librarian
librarian-chef init

To reference the Git version:

repo="linyows/nodebrew-cookbook"
latest_release=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$repo/git/refs/tags \
| ruby -rjson -e '
  j = JSON.parse(STDIN.read);
  puts j.map { |t| t["ref"].split("/").last }.sort.last
')
cat >> Cheffile <<END_OF_CHEFFILE
cookbook 'nodebrew', :git => 'git://github.com/$repo.git', :ref => '$latest_release'
END_OF_CHEFFILE
librarian-chef install

why-run support.

Attributes

nodebrew::default

Resources / Providers

• nodebrew
• nodebrew_node
• nodebrew_npm
• nodebrew_use
• nodebrew_script

nodebrew

Actions

Attributes

Examples

Install nodebrew to custom path

nodebrew '/usr/local/lib/nodebrew'

Install nodebrew for a user

nodebrew '/usr/local/lib/nodebrew' do
  ref 'v0.6.3'
  user 'vagrant'
end

nodebrew_node

Actions

Attributes

Examples

Install node.js

nodebrew_node '0.11.5'

Install node.js by binary

nodebrew_node '0.11.5' do
  binary true
end

nodebrew_npm

Actions

Attributes

Examples

Install node package

nodebrew_npm 'underscore'

Install node package with version

nodebrew_npm 'underscore@1.5.1'

Install with option

nodebrew_node 'underscore' do
  version '1.5.1'
  node_version '0.11.5'
  path '/var/www/app'
  package_json true
end

License and Author

MIT License

• linyows