I fully agree - the main reason I've done this conversion is because I want
to show nice graphs in foreman :) and that was not an option to change
everyones facter.
Ohad
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Michael DeHaan
<mich...@reductivelabs.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > another option that I use is to extend the string class in ruby, that
> would
> > allow you to do something like:
> > Facter.memorysize.to_gb
> > in order to do that add somewhere (e.g. before your custom fact)
> > class String
> > def to_gb
> > begin
> > value,unit=self.match(/(\d+|.+) ([KMG]B)$/i)[1..2]
> > case unit.to_sym
> > when nil, :B, :byte then (value.to_f / 1000_000_000)
> > when :GB, :G, :gigabyte then value.to_f
> > when :MB, :M, :megabyte then (value.to_f / 1000)
> > when :KB, :K, :kilobyte, :kB then (value.to_f / 1000_000)
> > else raise "Unknown unit: #{unit.inspect}!"
> > end
> > rescue
> > raise "Unknown string"
> > end
> > end
> > end
> > Ohad
>
> I'd rather look into fixing the problem than doing code monkeypatching
> in everyday environments and require folks to write facts to get this
> data.
>
> Let's look at making things like this available today in facter.
> Patch material?
>
> I generally think facts shouldn't include units anyway, yet we don't
> want to break existing things that depend on them.
>
> --Michael
>
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