h1. Spatula
Spatula is a command line helper app for use with "Chef":http://www.opscode.com/chef. It currently lets you search and install cookbooks from http://cookbooks.opscode.com. It does not yet implement the full API, but that will be coming in future versions (as I need it). If you need it to support the full API right now, please make it do so and send me a pull request :-)
Spatula is really, really alpha. It does not handle errors at all, but it works pretty well given that you hand it the correct input. Please give it a try and pretty please fork it and make it better.
h1. Installation
You can get spatula from gemcutter.
# Gemcutter: # Follow the instructions on http://gemcutter.org/ then... gem install spatula
h1. Usage
Spatula currently supports 6 commands: search, show, install, prepare, and cook.
$ spatula search apache2 apache2 Installs and configures all aspects of apache2 using Debian style symlinks with helper definitions ... more output ... $ spatula show apache2 name: apache2 average_rating: category: Web Servers created_at: 2009-10-25T23:47:55Z updated_at: 2009-10-25T23:47:55Z maintainer: jtimberman latest_version: http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/apache2/versions/0_9_1 external_url: versions: http://cookbooks.opscode.com/api/v1/cookbooks/apache2/versions/0_9_1 description: Installs and configures all aspects of apache2 using Debian style symlinks with helper definitions $ spatula install apache2 ... downloads the apache2 cookbook and installs it into $(pwd)/cookbooks ... ... also creates a $(pwd)/cookbook_tarballs dir to store the download ... $ spatula prepare user@192.168.1.101 ... installs ruby, chef and dependencies on 192.168.1.101 ... starts by adding your ssh public key to authorized_keys $ spatula cook user@192.168.1.101 ... uploads all of the files in the current directory to /tmp/chef-solo/ ... expects solo.rb and .json to live in ./config
h1. About
h2. Official Repo
http://github.com/trotter/spatula
h2. Author
Trotter Cashion