timdiggins

# ADD this to Rakefile and run it by issuing rake roles.to_json

ROLE_DIR = File.expand_path(File.join(TOPDIR, "roles"))
namespace :roles do 
	desc "Convert ruby roles from ruby to json, creating/overwriting json files."
	task :to_json do 
	  Dir.glob(File.join(ROLE_DIR, '*.rb')) do |rb_file|
	    role = Chef::Role.new
	    role.from_file(rb_file)
	    json_file = rb_file.sub(/\.rb$/,'.json')