A cookbook, based on the pivotal_workstation, but without a lot of custom providers and a lot cleaner.

This cookbook provides a package provider called homebrew_package which will install/remove packages using Homebrew. This becomes the default provider for package if your platform is Mac OS X.

As this extends the built-in package resource/provider in Chef, it has all the resource attributes and actions available to the package resource. However, a couple notes:

• Homebrew itself doesn't have a notion of "upgrade" per se. The "upgrade" action will simply perform an install, and if the Homebrew Formula for the package is newer, it will upgrade.
• Likewise, Homebrew doesn't have a purge, but the "purge" action will act like "remove".

package "mysql" do
  action :install
end

homebrew_package "mysql"

package "mysql" do
  provider Chef::Provider::Package::Homebrew
end

LWRP for brew tap, a Homebrew command used to add additional formula repositories. From the brew man page:

tap [tap]
       Tap a new formula repository from GitHub, or list existing taps.

       tap is of the form user/repo, e.g. brew tap homebrew/dupes.

Default action is :tap which enables the repository. Use :untap to disable a tapped repository.

homebrew_tap "homebrew/dupes"

homebrew_tap "homebrew/dupes" do
  action :untap
end

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write you change
4. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass (with travis)
5. Submit a Pull Request using Github