foodcritic rake task ~ one that works for me

FoodCritic (a lint tool for your OpsCode Chef cookbooks)
$ gem install foodcritic --no-ri --no-rdoc

Rake Task to get the FoodCritic rolling at your cookbooks
(here cookbook reside in dir 'cookbooks' at the root of directory with Rakefile)
the one at wiki doesn't work for me, but this does

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quick PuppetMaster Service Script for gem installed puppet set-up

On easy rubygem-way `gem install puppet` installation method for Puppet doesn't get you the *nix platforms service script... so here is one allowing you to perform Start||Stop||Restart||Status service task for puppetmaster.

• Save the file below as '/etc/init.d/puppetmaster'
  $ sudo curl -L -o /etc/init.d/puppetmaster https://gist.github.com/raw/2479100/15f79c68be3f6f6bf516adf385aac1f29f802a45/gistfile1.rb
• and turn on its eXecutable bit
  $ sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/puppetmaster
• Now you can use it as
  $ service puppetmaster status

PuppetMaster Service Script