On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Josh Cooper <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > Hi Mohamed, > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <lrh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I found where I read what I read... not directly Puppet, but Ruby: >> >> https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Troubleshooting: >> >> "If you notice those directories contain spaces, it might be because >> you installed Ruby in a folder with spaces (highly not recommended) >> or..." >> >> Thanks, >> Mohamed. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <lrh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I thought I read somewhere in Puppet docs/wiki... that it is >> > "recommended" to avoid spaces in file paths, or some similar verbiage, >> > but now I cant find it. >> > >> > Does Puppet have any known issues with spaces in file paths? It would >> > of course scare Windows admins away... So I hope I am wrong in >> > thinking I read that. >> > >> > Thanks a lot, >> > Mohamed. >> > >> > > I ran into trouble with spaces in file paths when setting RUBYLIB (in batch > files that run our windows rspec tests). I had to convert the paths to their > short names and convert backslashes to forward slashes. Without this, ruby > would not load from files in directories with spaces. > set PWD=%CD% > for %%f in ("%PWD%") do set SHORT_PWD=%%~sf > set RUBYLIB=%RUBYLIB%;%SHORT_PWD%/vendor/facter/lib > set RUBYLIB=%RUBYLIB:\=/% > Josh > -- > Josh Cooper > Developer, Puppet Labs > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >
Thanks Josh. I run into an issue where this Exec would fail if the variable has a space in it: command => "$splunk_home\\bin\\splunk.exe start", but then again that could happen in Unix just as well, not really Windows specific. I had to write: command => "\"$splunk_home\\bin\\splunk.exe\" start", So I am concluding that from the Puppet end-user perspective, there no special issue with spaces in path names, at least not as a Windows specific concern. Thanks a lot, Mohamed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
