Ruby and resources

- [Instructor] Now that you understand…what a Chef resource is, we can think about how to use…Ruby appropriately.…A resource again is a statement of configuration policy.…And actually most built in Chef resources can accomplish…the configuration tasks that you need.…Chef resources are designed to describe configurations…on many different platforms and be versatile enough…to fit your needs.…In other words use Chef resources whenever possible.…

Remember our definition of a Chef resource.…When we use them we describe the type…of resource that we're configuring.…It's name and then any properties…we'd like to take action with.…This is the basic structure of any…Chef resource that you'll work with.…What I want you to understand about this…is that Chef resources are authored with Ruby syntax…and have a .rb Ruby file extension.…Recipes contain Chef resources.…

However, Chef resources are not pure Ruby code…and cannot be run inside of a Ruby interpreter…like Ruby IRB.…It's important to understand that only the Chef client…