chef_direct.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'chef'
require 'chef/client'
require 'chef/run_context'

Chef::Config[:solo] = true
Chef::Config[:log_level] = :info
Chef::Log.level(:info)
client = Chef::Client.new
client.run_ohai
client.build_node

run_context = Chef::RunContext.new(client.node, Chef::CookbookCollection.new(Chef::CookbookLoader.new))

unless (ARGV[0] && ARGV[1])
  puts "#{$0} TYPE NAME (PARAM=VALUE...PARAM=VALUE)"
  puts "  TYPE = A chef resource type (package, service, etc)"
  puts "  PARAM=VALUE A param for the resource (action=create)"
  exit 1
end

# Build a recipe programatically, and execute it
recipe = Chef::Recipe.new("adhoc", "default", run_context)

resource_type = ARGV[0].dup
resource_name = ARGV[1].dup
resource_arguments = Hash.new
2.upto(ARGV.length) do |index|
  if ARGV[index] =~ /(.+)=(.+)/
    resource_arguments[$1] = $2 
  end
end

resource = recipe.send(resource_type.to_sym, resource_name) 
resource_arguments.each do |k,v|
  resource.send(k, v)
end
Chef::Runner.new(run_context).converge

chef_direct.sh

#!/bin/sh

./chef_direct.rb git "/tmp/chef" repository=git://github.com/opscode/chef.git reference=HEAD action=sync
./chef_direct.rb package sudo action=upgrade
./chef_direct.rb remote_file "/tmp/slashdot.html" source='http://slashdot.org' mode=0644
./chef_direct.rb service apache2 action=restart
./chef_direct.rb service mysql action=disable

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