[Puppet Users] Inheritance of classes in Ruby DSL

I have the same question (see
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/puppet-users/inheritance$20ruby$20dsl/puppet-users/RtMbu8yFZCc/Zet8ackZgnYJ)
and need this behavior for my project.

Is inheritance possible at all with the Ruby DSL? If not, should we create
an issue for that?

Am Dienstag, 15. Mai 2012 10:16:22 UTC+2 schrieb alxrem:

...Bueller

Anyone have an answer for this? This seems like a pretty pertinent feature
for anyone looking to take advantage of the ruby DSL. I for one would be
eternally grateful.

-Ryan

The Puppet Ruby DSL in its current form is deprecated:

Issue: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/18876

Discussion:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/puppet-dev/UsDaDGAneEE

As Ingo Fischer observed, Puppet's current Ruby DSL is deprecated. I think
I remember reading that PL's effort to create a replacement has been
abandoned. As such, I would not advise basing any work on Ruby DSL.

Although the Ruby DSL provided direct access to Ruby for defining
manifests, there were always features of Puppet's native DSL that the Ruby
DSL did not provide. In any case, class inheritance is a rather
special-purpose tool in Puppet (as was Ruby DSL), so although you may have
a good use case for it yourself, I don't think it's accurate to call
inheritance "a pretty pertinent feature for anyone looking to take
advantage of the ruby DSL."

If you tell us about what you're trying to do then perhaps we can suggest
an alternative.


John