Ridley is a reliable and very convenient Chef client. Among its key features, it exposes a number of functions that return resources which they can be used to retrieve or create objects on a Chef server.

Ridley provides CRUD operations and search feature for the following Chef resources:
* Clients
* Cookbooks
* Data bags.
* Environments.
* Nodes.
* Roles.
* Sandboxes.
* Users.