chef

https://github.com/opscode/chef

Ruby

A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

Chef::Role.from_disk

Load a role from disk - prefers to load the JSON, but will happily load
the raw rb files as well. Can search within directories in the role_path.

Source | Google | Stack overflow

Edit

git clone [email protected]:opscode/chef.git
cd chef
open lib/chef/role.rb

Contribute

# Make a new branch
git checkout -b -your-name--update-docs-Chef--Role-from_disk-for-pr

# Commit to git
git add lib/chef/role.rbgit commit -m "better docs for Chef::Role.from_disk"

# Open pull request
gem install hub # on a mac you can `brew install hub`
hub fork
git push <your name> -your-name--update-docs-Chef--Role-from_disk-for-pr
hub pull-request

# Celebrate!