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


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  • From: Phil Dibowitz < >
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  • Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: FC001, attributes as strings vs symbols
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:40:52 -0700

My understanding is that because of the way that attribute code works, if you
use symbols to access attributes, it actually converts them to a string before
doing a symbol look-up on them.

Which... ya know... works and all, but probably isn't what you intended.

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