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

I used node.run_state['variable'] for the same purpose and was successfully able to do it. Please find basic sample code below.

ruby_block "resource_name" do
   block do
     node.run_state['port_value'] = 1432
   end
end

ruby_block "resource_name2" do
   block do
      num = node.run_state['variable']
   end
end

I hope it will help.