[chef] Re: FC001, attributes as strings vs symbols

[Jeremy Voorhis < >]

As a maintainer of in-house and 3rd party cookbooks for my organization, I find FC001 too noisy to be useful. We haven't yet modernized our repo to include every single cookbook as a self-contained repo, and in some cases find little benefit in doing so. New cookbooks follow FC001 and other best practices that didn't yet exist or weren't widely known at the time, so this rule is mostly ignored for now and we test for the desired outcome instead.

Jeremy

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Joshua Timberman < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Ohai, Chefs!

We want to hear from you: which way of using node attributes do you prefer? Please take this single question survey:

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1059291/FC001-Use-strings-in-preference-to-symbols-to-access-node-attributes

This is in response to a longer twitter discussion today on the subject. The survey will be left open for awhile, letting as many people as possible answer. We *really* value this feedback.

If you want an explanation of why this rule came about the way it did, and our rationale for preferring strings to symbols, see this issue in the Foodcritic project:

https://github.com/acrmp/foodcritic/issues/1

If you're going to be at the Chef summit next week, I'm happy to discuss this in greater detail, too :-).