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Foreman ruby api adding node to hostgroup or puppetclasses to node

2014-07-23

I wanted to apply puppet classes to a node using a script, I started looking at the foreman REST API but stumbled upon the foreman_api ruby. I specified hostgroups in foreman and added puppet classes to the hostgroups. The idea is that I want to be able to change the hostgroups using a script.

Running things through irb this is what I came up with for changing the hostgroups.
#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'foreman_api'

hostname='node1.example.com'

hosts = ForemanApi::Resources::Host.new(
{
:base_url => '…