[chef] Re: Updating attributes in 0.7.6

[Adam Jacob < >]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Caleb 
Tennis<
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 wrote:
> When I updated to chef 0.7.6 this morning, I had an issue with my attributes
> (as noted in CHEF-473), causing this error:
> /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/portage/definitions/keyword.rb:11:in `+': can't
> convert Chef::Node::Attribute into String (TypeError)
> This was because I had attribute code that looked like this:
> cluster = Mash.new unless attribute?("cluster")
> cluster[:ruby_version] ||= "1.8.7_p74"

Caleb rocks for finding this bug and working with me to fix it.  This
only occurs when you use ||= to set a value.  The fix is in my
adamhjk/chef-473 branch, and we'll get it integrated with the mainline
chef and cut a new release with this fix in it on Monday.  If you have
lots of ||=, you may want to hold off until then.

(Or just switch over to the new attribute sauce, because it is much
nicer anyway.)

Regards,
Adam

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