Description

A (very) simple LWRP to provide access to rake as a resource.

Requirements

None.

Attributes

attribute :arguments, :kind_of => String, :required => true

The list of arguments to pass to rake.
ruby
attribute :working_directory, :kind_of => String, :required => true

The working directory rake will be executed in.

Usage

Make sure rake is installed locally:

include_recipe 'rake' 

Set Path

Currently it expects to find rake on the PATH env variable. Use this in a recipe to ensure it can (this is an example
for ubuntu 10.04).

ENV["PATH"] += ":/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin"

Finally, this is how we make rake run.

rake :run do
  working_directory "/tmp"
  arguments "--help"
  action :run
end

TODO

Lots, including

• fixing the need for action :run.
• Adding path statements per platform automagically.
• Adding versioning via an attribute or data_bag.
• Adding support to specific rake + ruby version (for multi versioned systems).
• Proper platform support, this should be easy (but a bit time consuming as I don't use every platform ever.)