install_from_release refactored into ark

[Bryan Berry]

Dear chimps,

I love the install_from_release cookbook. I started adding functionality to it to meet my particular needs but found that it made the code too brittle. I ended up rewriting the whole LWRP as Provider and Resource classes under ark/libraries.  I think this makes the whole thing much more extensible and robust. It does not yet support building with ant, make, or python but it shouldn't be difficult to add that in the future.

I have made some other superficial changes.

Here are some of the new resources I have created

ark_put "ivy" do                                                                                           
  url 'http://someurl.example.com/ivy.tar.gz'                                                                          checksum '89ba5fde0c596db388c3bbd265b63007a9cc3df3a8e6d79a46780c1a39408cb5'                                        end   


This is the simplest of all possible arks, it unpacks ivy to /usr/local/ivy and does not create any symlinks


ark_dump "jira_dependencies"                                                                                        url  "http://atlassian.com/bunch_of_jars.zip"                                                                     path "/usr/local/tomcat/lib"                                                                                      stop_file "wsdl4j.jar"                                                                                            owner "tomcat"                                                                                                  end  

ark_dump will place all the *.jar files in the archive into /usr/local/tomcat/lib/. Note: ark_dump currently only supports *.zip archives. 


Then finally, ark_cherry_pick, which cherry picks a single file from an archive



ark_cherry_pick 'mysql-connector-java' do                                                                           url 'http://oracle.com/mysql-connector.zip'                                                                       file 'mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar'                                                                         path '/usr/local/tomcat/lib'                                                                                    end 

Thanks again dear chimps for the awesome work on install_from. I hope you like ark. btw ark is an archive but Kewler


There are a lot more details on my blog post here: 
http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.it/2012/03/managing-archives-with-ark-resource.html