How do you create pretty json in CHEF (ruby)

Question

How would you make an erb template that has human readable json?

The following code works, but it makes a flat json file

default.rb

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Answer 1

Something like this would also work:

file "/var/my-file.json" do
  content Chef::JSONCompat.to_json_pretty(node['foo']['bar'].to_hash)
end