Is there a converter of some sort or was all this done by hand?

A converter (at least for the json part) would be fairly trivial as it seems that Chef generates the ruby code from the json config.

S

The documentation points me to https://github.com/samuel/kokki-cookbooks which 404s.

Being as there is a nice AttributeDictionary class, which masks the dict() based storage of things by coercing attribute access to properly pull things from the underlying dict(), why is the much uglier form of thing["attribute"]["otherattribute"]["ad"]["nauseum"] used in the code at all?

The inconsistency of use led to much head scratching until I had dug further into the code and found AttributeDictionary.

I'm still not sure whether AttributeDictionary is consistently used throughout the product, but if not, this would be a vast improvement over the mixed usages that obscure the intent of the code by exposing the multi-dimensional dict() based storage in some places while making them appear to be attributed objects in others.

S

There is no software requirements section at http://samuelks.com/kokki/#installation

This is my feedback after a quick try installing Kokki using pip.

Installing kokki from PyPi fails at several steps:

• ImportError: No module named yaml
  This can be solved at the setuptools level or adding yaml as a requirement to the docs
• ImportError: No module named providers
  No idea why