[chef] Re: Cookbooks upgrade to Chef 12

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 05/04/2015 12:38 PM, sd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to upgrade to Chef12, server and nodes but currently I 
> have a large number
> of cookbooks that don't have
>
> -  The `name' attribute is required in cookbook metadata - as per 
> https://docs.chef.io/config_rb_metadata.html this is required now

you're going to have to go through the trouble of adding this, there's 
no way around that.

> - the hash syntax has changed since the ruby version has changed as well
ruby 2.x still supports ruby 1.8.7 hashrockets syntax and likely always 
will since new style hashes only do hashes with symbols for keys.  this 
should not be an issue.

> - there are as well some string quotes that act different into the new 
> version
not sure what this is, but there's actually relatively few breaking 
changes between ruby 1.9.3 (the version with chef 11.x) and 2.x

the amount of breaking changes in chef 12 was also kept deliberately low 
and mostly edge conditions, there's nothing like the attributes changes 
going from chef 10 to chef 11.