Method: Chef::ResourceCollection#find

Defined in:
lib/chef/resource_collection.rb

#find(*args) ⇒ Object Also known as: resources

Find existing resources by searching the list of existing resources. Possible forms are:

find(:file => “foobar”) find(:file => [ “foobar”, “baz” ]) find(“file“, ”file“) find(“file”)

Returns the matching resource, or an Array of matching resources.

Raises an ArgumentError if you feed it bad lookup information Raises a Runtime Error if it can’t find the resources you are looking for.



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# File 'lib/chef/resource_collection.rb', line 136

def find(*args)
  results = Array.new
  args.each do |arg|
    case arg
    when Hash
      results << find_resource_by_hash(arg)
    when String
      results << find_resource_by_string(arg)
    else
      msg = "arguments to #{self.class.name}#find should be of the form :resource => 'name' or resource[name]"
      raise Chef::Exceptions::InvalidResourceSpecification, msg
    end
  end
  flat_results = results.flatten
  flat_results.length == 1 ? flat_results[0] : flat_results
end