Using a variable inside a Chef recipe

Question

I\'m using chef-cookbook-hostname cookbook to setup node\'s hostname. I don\'t want my hostname to be hard coded in the attribute file (default[\'set_fqdn\']).

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Answer 1

Please follow this link http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2015-03/msg00266.html you can use node.run_state[:variables] for parsing one variable to another recipe

Here is my code :: file.rb

node.run_state[:script_1] = "foo" include_recipe 'provision::copy'

and in other copy.rb file put following code ::

copy.rb

filename = node.run_state[:script_1] puts "Name is #{filename}"