Vim setup for Chef(Opscode) Cookbooks

I've started programming seriously Chef cookbooks by a while but always felts is something missing ... Well I didn't have

• jump to definition for any Chef dsl
• auto completion
• syntax highlight

Recently I found a solution for this, this is my vim setup(just as easy you can do it in Sublime Text as well) These are the tools in my setup

• vim
• vim-chef
• ripper-tags (by my surprise ctags doesn't work well with ruby files ...)

To setup is as simple as

# vim with pathogen
$ git clone https://github.com/vadv/vim-chef ~/.vim/bundle/vim-chef
$ sudo /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install gem-ripper-tags
$ knife cookbook create test_coobook -o .
# create tags - there are better ways to do it - see gem-tags for example
$ ripper-tags -R /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.10.4 -f tags
$ ctags -R -f tags_project
vim 
:set tags=tags,tags_project 
# done 

Puppet run_list (like Chef)

Chef has a very nice concept where whatever you need to run is part of a run_list. run_list. This provides an enforced way to run it as opposite to let control of the execution to the configuration management framework. Puppet lacks such run list - can use operators as -> but there is no global list. This trick can simulate a run_list with the same results. Create a file called test.pp with the content:

class one() {
    notice('class one')
}

class two() {
    notice('class two')
}

class three() {
    notice('class three')
}

define include_list  {
    $cls = $name
    notice("including $name")
    include $name
}

if $fqdn == 'debian.localdomain'{
    $clss = ['one', 'two', 'three']
    include_list { $clss:; }
}

And then run it as

 puppet apply test.pp
 notice: Scope(Include_list[one]): including one
notice: Scope(Class[One]): class one
notice: Scope(Include_list[two]): including two
notice: Scope(Class[Two]): class two
notice: Scope(Include_list[three]): including three
notice: Scope(Class[Three]): class three
notice: Finished catalog run in 0.04 seconds