From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-10-26T04:36:31+09:00
Subject: Re: DSL and indirection question

On Oct 25, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out the best way of writing a script that describes various requirements in the form of "12.34.56" (from a requirement document) that I can then create methods for reporting, verifying and remediating the requirment on a system.
> 
> This is script for checking and fixing systems based on a bunch of security requirements.  There are a couple of hundred rules and a few hundred systems.  I am thinking about building a hash of Procs, but I think it is going to be too ugly.  Any suggestions on a clean and easy to read way of doing this?

This almost sounds like a job for Chef or Puppet, if I understood correctly.

I'm not really getting what you are aiming for here.  Can you show a simple example or two?

James Edward Gray II