chef

https://github.com/opscode/chef

Ruby

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

Chef::PolicyBuilder::Policyfile#cookbooks_to_sync

Builds a 'cookbook_hash' map of the form
  "COOKBOOK_NAME" => "IDENTIFIER"

This can be passed to a Chef::CookbookSynchronizer object to
synchronize the cookbooks.

TODO: Currently this makes N API calls to the server to get the
cookbook objects. With server support (bulk API or the like), this
should be reduced to a single call.

Source | Google | Stack overflow

Edit

git clone [email protected]:opscode/chef.git

cd chef

open lib/chef/policy_builder/policyfile.rb

Contribute

# Make a new branch

git checkout -b -your-name--update-docs-Chef--PolicyBuilder--Policyfile-cookbooks_to_sync-for-pr

# Commit to git

git add lib/chef/policy_builder/policyfile.rbgit commit -m "better docs for Chef::PolicyBuilder::Policyfile#cookbooks_to_sync"

# 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--PolicyBuilder--Policyfile-cookbooks_to_sync-for-pr

hub pull-request

# Celebrate!