Quite often, the need arises to do line editing instead of managing an entire file with a template resource. This cookbook supplies various resources that will help you do this.

Add "depends 'line'" to your cookbook's metadata.rb to gain access to the resoures.

append_if_no_line "make sure a line is in dangerfile" do
  file "/tmp/dangerfile"
  line "HI THERE I AM STRING"
end

replace_or_add "spread the love" do
  path "/some/file"
  pattern "Why hello there.*"
  line "Why hello there, you beautiful person, you."
end

So far, the only resource implemented are

append_if_no_line.
replace_or_add

More to follow.

tester - A recipe to exercise the resources

Author:: Sean OMeara ([email protected])