gistfile1.rb

include_recipe "python"
include_recipe "git"

bash "compile_blogofile_source" do
  cwd "/tmp"
  code <<-EOH
    git clone #{node[:blogofile][:git_repo]}
    cd blogofile
    python setup.py install
  EOH
  creates node[:blogofile][:src_binary]
  not_if do node[:blogofile][:src_binary] end 
end

Actually, it's part of some experimentation I've been doing with the server configuration tool Chef.

http://github.com/mattd/chef-repo/blob/master/site-cookbooks/blogofile/recipes/source.rb

I used blogofile as my test case for using Chef, and though it's kind of overkill for a tool like blogofile, it sure works well. In the end, I bootstrap a VM with Chef, and then tell it to be a blogofile server using a recipe that looks like this:

http://github.com/mattd/chef-repo/blob/master/site-cookbooks/bytexbyte/recipes/default.rb

And bam! all set up with a ssh-auth'd git server with all the needed directories, nginx running properly, etc. All I have to do then is push my blogofile repo to the git server Chef has setup and my site is live.

If you're interested in Chef, let me know and we can chat. The docs are in a state of flux, and it's difficult to get started, but well worth it if you're looking for something like it.