[chef] Re: Re: Re: Using libraries in attributes file to fetch values from a service.

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, August 22, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Daniel Condomitti wrote:

> Is anyone aware of a way to load libraries from another cookbook without 
> requiring a recipe from it? A depends statement isn't enough in metadata.rb 
> to make them available in my experience. I usually just dump an empty 
> recipe in the cookbook containing the library I want to use. Is this 
> expected / designed behavior or should I fix it?
>  
> Dan
`depends` ought to do it. If it didn’t then you couldn’t `include_recipe` 
from another cookbook and all sorts of things wouldn’t be working. Can you 
come up with a reproduction case that demonstrates the behavior you’re seeing?

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Daniel DeLeo