finack

app = node[:rails][:app]

rails_base app[:name] do
  ruby_ver app[:ruby_ver]
  gemset app[:gemset]
end

%w{config log pids cached-copy bundle system}.each do |dir|
  directory "#{app[:app_root]}/shared/#{dir}" do
    owner app[:deploy_user]

serjs

Overview

Here is an example shared configuration for knife. You can drop this off in your chef-repo/.chef/ directory, and multiple developers can use the same knife configuration to interact with more than one Chef server, or the Opscode platform.

By using Bash functions and environment variables we can change the chef server, which knife is configured to use, on the fly.

NOTE: knife will probably ignore your ~/.chef/knife.rb once you begin using a shared knife.rb in your chef-repo directory.

Preparation