chef

https://github.com/opscode/chef

Ruby

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

Chef::RunContext::CookbookCompiler#cookbook_order

Extracts the cookbook names from the expanded run list, then iterates
over the list, recursing through dependencies to give a run_list
ordered array of cookbook names with no duplicates. Dependencies appear
before the cookbook(s) that depend on them.

Source | Google | Stack overflow

Edit

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

cd chef

open lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb

Contribute

# Make a new branch

git checkout -b -your-name--update-docs-Chef--RunContext--CookbookCompiler-cookbook_order-for-pr

# Commit to git

git add lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rbgit commit -m "better docs for Chef::RunContext::CookbookCompiler#cookbook_order"

# 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--RunContext--CookbookCompiler-cookbook_order-for-pr

hub pull-request

# Celebrate!