[chef] Re: Accessing Node Object in Libraries

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

"Should you": that's an architectural question for our developers, presumably. You're right -- I usually pass either the node object itself or the attributes thereof to a helper, if I need them:

https://github.com/juliandunn/oracle-instantclient/blob/master/libraries/utils.rb#L26

- Julian

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Stewart, Curtis < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Should I always be able to access the node object in libraries?  Julian Dunn wrote a great post on writing libraries here, but there’s no reference to a node object.  

Unfortunately, I don’t have a specific example, but I know I’ve come across cases where I have to pass the node object from a recipe into a library method because the library didn’t know about the node object itself.  I believe the differences come into play when you create a proper library using ruby modules (as in Julian’s post) vs. just adding helper methods with no namespacing.

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