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

[AJ Christensen < >]

I hit reply to all by accident -- sorry guys :(

--AJ

On 17 April 2013 09:04, Daniel DeLeo 
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> On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
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> Now that you mention it, yeah, I think we used to use Chef::Resource as the
> scope for recipe code but now it runs in its own thang so you might well
> have a point :)
>
> --Noah
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> The block you pass to a resource is evaluated through instance_eval on the
> resource object, so the context depends on whether you're inside that block
> or not.
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> I think the biggest pain point is doing something like
> `File.exist?("/path/thing.ext")` inside a not_if/only_if block, and I
> believe that's still affected.
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>
> --
> Daniel DeLeo
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