So your probably looking for 'puppet describe'. Just make sure you have the type/provider's lib directory in your RUBYLIB path and run the command. So if the custom type/provider is already installed it should just work. Here is an example of one I was hacking on several months back.
RUBYLIB=$HOME/src/modules/cloud_vm/lib puppet describe -s cloud_vm cloud_vm ======== Doing stuff Parameters ---------- access_key, api_key, ensure, flavor, id, image, name, region, user_data Providers --------- ec2 -- Cody Herriges Professional Service Engineer - Puppet Labs pgp key: 0x5DB77142 @ pgp.mit.edu On Feb 1, 2012, at 3:18 PM, vertigo wrote: > Hi All. > > We have written an extensive custom type (with provider) for an > internal product that I would like to document using the @doc class > instance variable and calls to desc in the type. > > For the life of me, I cannot work out (or find an example) of how to > extract said documentation. Do you use puppet doc? rdoc? another tool? > I have seen nearly all documentation detailing custom types, and they > all tell you to use the @doc and desc, but don't tell you how to then > utilise it. > > Cheers! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
