Configuration

Spice has four configuration variables:

Spice.server_url    # default: http://localhost:4000
Spice.chef_version  # default: 0.10.8. Should be set to the version you have
Spice.client_name   # default: nil. Must be set to a valid admin Chef client
Spice.key_file      # default: nil. Must be set to a file path

To connect to a Chef server at https://chef.example.com:5000 with the "admin" API client, throw this somewhere your app can initialize:

Spice.server_url  = "http://chef.example.com:5000"
Spice.client_name = "admin"
Spice.key_file    = "/path/to/keyfile.pem"

Say you had a Chef server v0.10.8 running locally on port 4000 over HTTP, you only need to set your client_name and key_file path:

Spice.client_name = "admin"
Spice.key_file    = "/path/to/keyfile.pem"

You can also use the Spice.setup block if you prefer this style:

Spice.setup do |s|
  s.server_url   = "http://chef.example.com:4000"
  s.client_name  = "admin"
  s.key_file     = "/path/to/keyfile.pem"
  s.chef_version = "0.9.18"
end

If you want to reset your config to their default values:

Spice.reset