[chef] Re: [Template] - variables vs direct attribute access

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Oct 31, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Tyler 
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> I don’t have any hard evidence about this, but I suspect that you may get 
> better error messages outside the template.

I think that used to be true in old versions of Chef, but not anymore — 
template errors now show locality.

As others pointed out, if you’re just printing node attributes in the 
template then it’s kind of a wash either way. But I try to avoid doing really 
complicated logic in templates, for the sole reason of readability. 
Interspersing control structures with <%- and %> ERB escaping makes my head 
hurt.

Also, yeah, there are software design arguments (separation of 
model/controller from view) too.

- Julian