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stevendanna / gist:1230032

Created September 20, 2011 19:14

Example of extending Package::Apt to prohibit service start-up. Warning: Unreliable.

	class Chef::Provider::Package::Apt
	def install_package(name, version)
	package_name = "#{name}=#{version}"
	package_name = name if @is_virtual_package
	run_command_with_systems_locale(:command => "printf '#!/bin/sh\n\exit 101' > /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d && chmod +x /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d") if @new_resource.prohibit_start
	begin
	run_command_with_systems_locale(:command => "apt-get -q -y#{expand_options(@new_resource.options)} install #{package_name}",
	:environment => {
	"DEBIAN_FRONTEND" => "noninteractive"
	}

stevendanna / gist:1254950

Created September 30, 2011 20:57

Delete node named "new"

	# Run the following commands in Shef
	sillynode = nodes.all { \|n\| n if n.name == "new" }
	sillynode.compact!
	sillynode = sillynode[0]
	sillynode.destroy

stevendanna / default.rb

Created October 11, 2011 16:33

Monkey patching the Template resource to do validation

	#
	# Cookbook Name:: template_checker
	# Recipe:: default
	#
	# Copyright 2011, Opscode, Inc
	#
	# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	# You may obtain a copy of the License at
	#

stevendanna / *Packages*

Created November 20, 2011 23:58

	ac-R 0.2 available Autocompletion routines for R
	ac-ja 0.0.1 available auto-complete-mode source for Japanese
	ac-slime 0.1 available An auto-complete source using slime completions
	ace-jump-mode 1.0 available a quick cursor location minor mode for emacs
	ahg 0.99 available Alberto's Emacs interface for Mercurial (Hg)
	all 1.0 available Edit all lines matching a given regexp
	alpha 1.0 available increase frame transparency
	android-mode 0.1 available Minor mode for Android application development
	anything 1.287 available open anything / QuickSilver-like candidate-selection framework
	anything-R 0.1.2010 available anything-sources and some utilities for GNU R.

stevendanna / 2011-11-19-rebooting-gtd-and-emacs.markdown

Created November 21, 2011 07:34

# Install Dependencies
sudo yum-builddep emacs
sudo yum install
# Get source
cd ~/src
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
cd emacs
# Install
./autogen.sh

./configure

stevendanna / set_or_return_test

Created January 4, 2012 21:33

	chef:recipe > puts (:this => "that")
	SyntaxError: (irb#1):38: syntax error, unexpected tASSOC, expecting ')'
	puts (:this => "that")
	^
	(irb#1):38: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting $end

	chef:recipe > puts(:this => "that")
	{:this=>"that"}
	=> nil
	chef:recipe > puts ({:this => "that"})

stevendanna / check_bootstrap.rb

Created January 10, 2012 06:43

	require 'chef/knife'

	class Chef
	class Knife
	class CheckBootstrap < Knife

	deps do
	require 'chef/knife/bootstrap'
	require 'chef/knife/core/bootstrap_context'
	require 'erubis'

stevendanna / gist:1860298

Created February 18, 2012 17:31

Bug?

	chef > recipe
	chef:recipe > node.default['foo'] = "bar"
	=> "bar"
	chef:recipe > node.set_unless['foo'] = "baz"
	=> "baz"
	chef:recipe > node['foo']
	=> "baz"
	chef:recipe > node.normal['boo'] = "bar"
	=> "bar"
	chef:recipe > node.set_unless['boo'] = "baz"

stevendanna / summarize

Created March 11, 2012 01:35

summarize: A script to generate summarize statistics from input

	#!/usr/bin/Rscript
	#
	# Quickly generate some basic descriptive
	# statistics from stdin
	#

	library('optparse', quietly=TRUE)


	option_list <- list(make_option(c("-H", "--header"), action="store_true", default=FALSE,

stevendanna / gist:2014470

Created March 11, 2012 01:38

do.times


	error() {
	echo "$1" >&2
	return 1
	}

	is_integer() {
	case "$1" in
	''\|[!0-9])
	return 1

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