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Chef/Correctness/ChefApplicationFatal

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The Cookstyle cops department: Chef/Correctness

Enabled by defaultSupports autocorrectionTarget Chef Version
EnabledYesAll 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

NameDefault valueConfigurable values
Version Added6.0.0String
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