I’ve been discovering inspec lately and I’m trying to translate some CIS benchmarks to ruby scripts that I can execute using InSpec.
The thing is that I’m not familiar with ruby, by any chance, can I use another language for coding those scripts ? I’ve been following a youtube tutorial from chef :
Create a Profile - What to expect when you're InSpec'ing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0npgDsES9s
I couldn’t even install atom correctly on ubuntu 16.04,
Did anone face the same issues ?
You don't really need to know ruby to use inspec. You could try using the resources like Compliance Automation With Inspec on Learn Chef. That website has all the resources you need to learn everything Chef related.
Can I use another language for coding those scripts?
No.
From the documentation:
The InSpec DSL is a Ruby DSL for writing audit controls, which includes audit resources that you can invoke.
[https://www.inspec.io/docs/reference/dsl_inspec/]
At a minimal, you must learn the Ruby DSL in order to write InSpec tests. And if you also learn Ruby, you'll be able to write a lot of additional tests that can't be done with the Ruby DSL alone (though it is quite capable). Ruby is a simple scripting language with a host of tutorials on the web; I suspect you'll be able to pick it up in no time.
