ChefApplicationFatal

All Cookstyle Cops


The department is: Chef/Correctness

The full name of the cop is: Chef/Correctness/ChefApplicationFatal


Enabled by default Supports autocorrection Target Chef Version
Enabled Yes All Versions

Use raise to force Chef Infra Client to fail instead of using Chef::Application.fatal, which masks the full stack trace of the failure and makes debugging difficult.

Examples

incorrect

Chef::Application.fatal!('Something horrible happened!')

correct

raise "Something horrible happened!"

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values
Version Added 6.0.0 String
Exclude
  • **/metadata.rb
  • **/Berksfile
Array

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https://docs.chef.io/workstation/cookstyle/chef_correctness_chefapplicationfatal/