WARNING: This is 100% unmaintained as I no longer use Chef. If you'd like to take over maintenance, let me know.

Description

Installs ack(1), a utility for quickly performing recursive searches of directory trees of text files (such as source code).

On Debian and Ubuntu, it creates a /usr/local/bin/ack symlink so that you don't have to type 'ack-grep'.

Requirements

Platforms:

• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora
• ArchLinux
• Gentoo

Attributes

• node[:ack][:symlink_as] - What to symlink to /usr/bin/ack-grep. Debian and Ubuntu only. Default is /usr/local/bin/ack.
• node[:ack][:extensions] - Additional extensions for ack to respect. Default is

{
  'js'   => %w{json coffee ejs},
  'ruby' => %w{erb rake feature},
  'html' => %w{eco jade jsp slim vm txt},
  'css'  => %w{styl sass scss}
}

Changes

• 1.0.2 (2014-05-03) - Added cookbook name to metadata (thanks to kisoku for the pull request)
• 1.0.1 (unreleased) - Added some additional feature contributions
• 1.0.0 (2011-11-11) - First release