[chef] Re: Ohai Plugins Available when evaluating attributes.rb?

[Ranjib Dey < >]

yes, if its a ohai plugins it will be evaluated in the node build stage, which happens before cookbook compilation,

[1]https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/client.rb#L436

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Douglas Garstang < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Is the data returned from custom ohai plugins going to be available when evaluating stuff in attributes.rb? I have a plugin which tells me if I am running inside an EC2 VPC. I'd like to use that in my attributes.rb with some 'when' logic to set some attributes. Yes? No?

Doug