[chef] Overriding Search

[Kevin Nuckolls < >]

We had a long discussion today about a pain point we've had with Chef thus far. We'd like to rely on the search functionality that chef provides so things will automatically wire up with each other in a given environment. But during cookbook development we'd like to have more flexibility with the search functionality.

We decided that we'd like to have a bit more control over the search functionality and be able to provide overrides while we're working on something. Has anyone already written a library for doing something like that?

Thanks,

-Kevin