[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Add "url" to depends/metadata ?

[Peter Donald < >]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Peter Donald 
<
 >
 wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Kevin Nuckolls
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>> I've always thought that include_recipe is an anti-pattern if you're
>> including recipes outside of the cookbook you're in.
> ...
>
> While I can see how you have got to the place you are currently at, it
> is almost the exact opposite to where we are.
>
> We started out using your approach but as roles are un-versioned or we
> wanted more complex logic in resolving our attributes between
> roles/environments/nodes we found ourselves engineered into a dead
> end. Our roles now all include one recipe, the so called "role
> recipe".

And I decided to clarify the idea with a blog post.

http://realityforge.org/code/2012/11/19/role-cookbooks-and-wrapper-cookbooks.html

HTH,

Peter Donald