portertech / chef-growl

Automatic syntax checking for your chef cookbooks

Chef-growl

Automatic Chef cookbook testing, instant notifications to your desktop using Growl

• Chef-growl is a ruby script that watches for OpsCode Chef cookbook changes.
• It aims to facilitate the development of cookbook code by sending instant notifications to your OS X desktop.

Installation (OS X)

1. sudo gem install eventmachine ruby-growl em-dir-watcher
2. Set an environment variable "CHEF_PATH" with the full path to the root of your Chef repository (export CHEF_PATH=/home/user/chef)
3. Make sure to allow the following in Growl preferences: Listen for incoming connections, allow remote application registration.
4. Run the script: ruby chef-growl.rb

Error Fixes

osx/foundation --> https://gist.github.com/289868

TODO

• Supporting libnotify under Linux.