[chef] Re: LWRP being defined inside libraries directory?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 6:38 AM, aL. wrote:
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> https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/database/tree/master/libraries
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> Is there a new pattern i'm missing?

These are what people are calling “heavy weight resources and providers” or 
HWRP. The downside of doing this is that you need to write your code in a 
more pure ruby way, with less help from the DSL. The benefit is that you 
fully control the class names (and therefore the names of resources, too). It 
also means you don’t need as much magic to be able to test your code. If you 
want to test a LWRP in isolation, you have to know to use this method: 
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/ff9147776117f6a5592449384ab6f6ff6605e9be/lib/chef/provider/lwrp_base.rb#L83
 in order to make Chef create the LWRP classes, which is not something most 
people know to do.

Noah has been working on a sort of middle ground, with his poise stuff, see 
here: https://github.com/poise/poise
  
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