[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: ::File notation

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

I think he is just stating that this is subpar, which is true. It is 
definitely a place a lot of new Chef users get caught up, so maybe we should 
consider renaming the Chef class so it doesn't conflict, at which point the 
name would resolve normally. This would require special-casing something 
somewhere I think, but perhaps it is worth it?

--Noah

On Apr 16, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Mike wrote:

> So we're back to me not understanding the problem that Akzhan is stating.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Noah Kantrowitz 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>> Yep, the issue is that recipe code is executed in the Chef::Recipe 
>> namespace, so "File" gets you Chef::File. Not sure there is a workaround 
>> given Ruby's structure for name lookups.
>> 
>> --Noah
>> 
>> On Apr 16, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Mike wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't understand.
>>> 
>>> By using ::File, aren't you guaranteeing that you're using the root 
>>> namespace?
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Akzhan Abdulin
>>> <
 >
>>>  wrote:
>>>> Hello Chiefs,
>>>> 
>>>> I have insight, - Chef classes should never be named as system ones.
>>>> 
>>>> We need to eliminate ::File and so on notation.
>>>> 
>>>> Yours sincerely,
>>>> Akzhan.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 2013/4/16 Avishai Ish-Shalom 
>>>> <
 >
>>>>> 
>>>>> inline_recipe "test" do
>>>>> 
>>>>>    block do
>>>>>            log "testing resource group"
>>>>> 
>>>>>            file "/tmp/test1" do
>>>>> 
>>>>>                    mode "0600"
>>>>> 
>>>>>            end
>>>>>    end
>>>>>    action :nothing
>>>>> 
>>>>>    notifies :write, "log[test]"
>>>>> 
>>>>> only_if { ::File.exists? "/tmp/test2" }
>>>>> 
>>>>> end
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://github.com/avishai-ish-shalom/chef-inline-recipe/blob/master/recipes/default.rb
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>

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