[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: cookbook name as an attribute

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Monday, December 2, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Tim Cook wrote:

Why am I unable to pass the cookbook as an instance variable to a library class ? 

That you can do. In more exact terms:

recipes, attribute files, resource definitions, and LWRP files are all evaluated within a special context. For recipes, this is `instance_eval` of an already initialized `Chef::Recipe` object, which already has the node object, run_context and other stuff populated as instance variables with accessor methods you can use.

library files, on the other hand, are evaluated just by calling ruby’s `Kernel.load` function so they don’t have any of this special context available, so if you need access to the node, run_context or whatever, you have to pass it in from wherever the code gets called.

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Daniel DeLeo