I'm trying to extend an existing cookbook where we use Mixlib::ShellOut to collect a fair amount of information about an Oracle install. Mostly it jus ...

have an next case: expecting test4 to return result as test3 I guess maybe mysql returning result not to stdout, where then and how can I get the ...

I have the following Ruby block: I want to log the result of the script into both STDOUT and a file called "/tmp/xml_diff_results.txt". The first ...

I just have a recipe with content: Attribute output with knife is: How to get this output using knife below? Thanks ...

I am using Chef resource Execute on Windows. When I set the user attribute of the resource, I get this error: That makes sense, but there is not a ...

When is it appropriate to use shellout in a recipe instead of bash blocks or execute? I'm inclining to using it by default for all outside calls, beca ...

I'm running ruby on windows, having installed 1.9.3 via the ruby installer. I've installed the chef ruby gem, but I cannot use chef-client or knife fr ...