Puppet users - Apr 2013 - puppet-lint -- learning stuff about style but also generating questions

Here''s one I learned: 

I originally had 

# Ensure /etc/hosts contains the basics 
host { "${fqdn}": 
    host_aliases => $hostname, 
    ip => $ipaddress, 
} 

And thru some trial and error, got down to this (which puppet-lint does not
gripe about)

# Ensure /etc/hosts contains the basics 
host { $fqdn: 
    host_aliases => $hostname, 
    ip => $ipaddress, 
} 

Now for a question:

puppet-lint does not like template files at all.
I keep getting this: ERROR: Syntax error (try running `puppet parser validate
<file>`)

My first thought is to ignore template files.

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) 

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On Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:22:54 AM UTC-5, Ygor
wrote:
>
> Here''s one I learned: 
>
> I originally had 
>
> # Ensure /etc/hosts contains the basics 
> host { "${fqdn}": 
>     host_aliases => $hostname, 
>     ip => $ipaddress, 
> } 
>
> And thru some trial and error, got down to this (which puppet-lint does 
> not gripe about) 
>
> # Ensure /etc/hosts contains the basics 
> host { $fqdn: 
>     host_aliases => $hostname, 
>     ip => $ipaddress, 
> } 
>
> Now for a question: 
>
> puppet-lint does not like template files at all. 
> I keep getting this: ERROR: Syntax error (try running `puppet parser 
> validate <file>`) 
>
> My first thought is to ignore template files. 
>
>
puppet-lint is designed to lint puppet manifests, not the templates.  The 
templates are a big mix of random text with scattered rubyisms. 
 
> “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere 
> in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” 
> Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) 
>
>
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On Apr 11, 2013, at 1:53 PM, llowder wrote:
> On Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:22:54 AM UTC-5, Ygor wrote:
> Now for a question: 
> 
> puppet-lint does not like template files at all. 
> I keep getting this: ERROR: Syntax error (try running `puppet parser
validate <file>`)
> 
> My first thought is to ignore template files. 
> 
> 
> puppet-lint is designed to lint puppet manifests, not the templates.  The
templates are a big mix of random text with scattered rubyisms.
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson: “D-oh!”

I shoulda thunka that.  Thanks for pointing it out.

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On 04/11/2013 05:22 PM, Dan White wrote:
> puppet-lint does not like template files at all.
> I keep getting this: ERROR: Syntax error (try running `puppet parser
validate <file>`)
puppet-lint checks adherence to codestyle.

For erb''s you can check syntax with something like this:


$ erb -x -T - mytemplate.erb | ruby -c

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