A small knife plugin to allow you to easily syntax check your ruby and/or json code for your cookbooks, roles, environments, databags, and nodes.

$ knife syntax-check --help
knife syntax-check
    -a, --all                        Test syntax of all roles, environments, nodes, databags and cookbooks
    -c, --cookbooks                  Test only cookbook syntax
    -D, --databags                   Test only databag syntax
    -e, --environments               Test only environment syntax
    -n, --nodes                      Test only node syntax
    -r, --roles                      Test only role syntax

Simply copy the syntax-check.rb script to your .chef/plugins/knife/ folder. Depends on the 'yajl-ruby' gem for json syntax checking.

Basically this plugin just piggy backs on existing knife commands when checking cookbooks.

However for nodes, environments, roles, and databags, syntax is checked as follows:

• JSON - checked using the yajl-ruby gem
• Ruby - checked using the 'ruby -c' command

This has ONLY been tested against hosted chef. Bugs may and probably do exist. If you find a bug or want a feature, please feel free to contact me or fork the repo, fix it yourself and issue a pull request.

MIT

Copyright (C) 2013 Chris Doughty cdoughty77@gmail.com

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