seth vidal wrote:
Which makes me ask - why change it?
We know it works now..
I don't see anything wrong with what you have but I'm not clear on
why an ERB template is better.
As a general code cleanup. Forking 3 shells to ruby to get data
provided by puppet directly is less efficient and uglier than using a
standard template. Also, while I don't imagine it will change anytime
soon, but if the puppet code gets reorganized in the future, I can see
the current ruby shell queries being broken more easily than accessing
the variables via puppet.
But it's not a big deal if you think it's not worth the risk to clean
it up.
Perhaps add a note there that the variables are available, so others
perusing the puppet manifests don't think they need to resort to this
sort of thing for other tasks? A lot of folks don't spend their days
in puppet manifests and learn from reading the other code in the
repository.
(I've been called a pedant before though. Shocking, I know. ;)
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