Hey, Thanks for the reply... This is already in a role though, so would 
calling a role from a role make sense or even work? 
Thanks, C

On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 1:03:50 AM UTC-8, Borys Borysenko wrote:
>
> Hello Colin,
>
> The most simple way I guess is just to split your playbook with pre_tasks, 
> roles and tasks sections. Something similar to:
>
> ---
> - hosts: all
>   vars: []
>   pre_tasks:
>   - name: create group titled deploy
>     group: name=deploy state=present
>   - name: update apt-cache
>     sudo: yes
>     apt: update_cache=yes
>   - name: create deploy user
>     user: name=deploy group=deploy groups=sudo comment="Deployment User" 
> home="/home/deploy" shell="/bin/bash" 
>   roles:
>     - external-rbenv-role
>   tasks:
>   - name: Install the kitchen sink
>     action: apt name={{item}} state=present update_cache=true
>     sudo: yes
>     with_items:
>      - libqtwebkit-dev
>      - node
>   -  lots of other tasks 
>   post_tasks: []
>
> Regards,
> Borys
>
> вторник, 29 декабря 2015 г., 2:08:37 UTC+2 пользователь Colin Byrne 
> написал:
>>
>> So I used to have one fairly long main.yml playbook that was used to 
>> perform a number of similar-tasks, one of which was to install rbenv, the 
>> ruby management tool.
>>
>> ---
>>
>>   - name: create group titled deploy
>>
>>     group: name=deploy state=present
>>
>>   - name: update apt-cache
>>
>>     sudo: yes
>>
>>     apt: update_cache=yes
>>
>>   - name: create deploy user
>>
>>     user: name=deploy group=deploy groups=sudo comment="Deployment User" 
>> home="/home/deploy" shell="/bin/bash" 
>>
>>   - name: download rbenv
>>
>>   ...  
>>
>>   - name: install rbenv
>>
>>   ... 
>>
>>   - name: configure rbenv
>>
>>   ...  
>>
>>   - name: Install the kitchen sink
>>
>>     action: apt name={{item}} state=present update_cache=true
>>
>>     sudo: yes
>>
>>     with_items:
>>
>>       - libqtwebkit-dev
>>
>>       - node
>>   -  lots of other tasks 
>>   ...
>>
>> I found a nice galaxy role that better suits my needs for installing 
>> rbenv, and I now want to include it to run in the same order as previously, 
>> but I am confused as to how the documentation recommends to do this and the 
>> syntax (seemingly with dependencies or includes?). It is hard to decipher 
>> wether I will have to split it into three roles (the pre-rbenv, rbenv, 
>> post-rbenv) which would really seem inconvenient as the three would always 
>> be used together. I suspect this is a pretty common dilemma...
>>
>> Thank you all for the help so far, this forum has really made is a 
>> pleasure learning ansible. 
>>
>

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