[chef] Re: Re: Re: Getting cookbook name from recipe

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Monday, May 14, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Dr. Agon Smith wrote:

> Yea! Thank you!
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> 2012/5/14 Ranjib Dey 
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> > i think @cookbook_name instance variable holds the name of the current 
> > cookbook inside a recipe.
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There is also an attribute accessor method for this, which I recommend you 
use instead.

Because of the way Chef and ruby work, we can't hide these instance variables 
from you, but if we need to change the way something works, it's much more 
difficult to maintain compatibility if you're using the instance variables 
directly. Contrarily, with a method call, we can just change the 
implementation of the method to return the same result.


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Dan DeLeo