Chef Cookstyle - Chef Infra Cookbook linting with autocorrection

Umbrella Project: Workstation
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Cookstyle is a code linting tool that helps you to write better Chef Infra cookbooks by detecting and automatically correcting style, syntax, and logic mistakes in your code.

Cookstyle is powered by the RuboCop linting engine. RuboCop ships with over three-hundred rules, or cops, designed to detect common Ruby coding mistakes and enforce a common coding style. We've customized Cookstyle with a subset of those cops that we believe are perfectly tailored for cookbook development. We also ship 130 Chef specific cops that catch common cookbook coding mistakes, cleanup portions of code that are no longer necessary, and detect deprecations that prevent cookbooks from running on the latest releases of Chef Infra Client.

For a complete list of Cookstyle rules see the Cops Documentation

Cookstyle vs. RuboCop

How does Cookstyle differ from RuboCop?

Tailored for Cookbooks

Cookbook development differs from that of traditional Ruby software development, so we have tailored the list of built-in cops in RuboCop for cookbook development. For the most part, this means disabling cops deemed not useful for cookbook development. Occasionally, we've changed the configuration of a rule to enforce a different behavior altogether. We've also extended the base RuboCop package with a set of our own Chef Infra-specific cops. These cops are only found in Cookstyle and will help you to write more reliable and future-proof cookbooks.

See the current set of cops in config/cookstyle.yml.

Stable

RuboCop is an incredibly active project with new cops being introduced monthly. The new cops cause existing codebases to fail CI tests and force authors to constantly update their code. With Cookstyle, we update the RuboCop engine for bug and performance fixes, but we only change the set of cops that will fail tests once a year during Chef Infra's April major release. All new cops are introduced at RuboCop's "refactor" alert level, meaning they will alert to the screen as you run Cookstyle, but they won't fail a build. This stability means you are free to upgrade releases of Cookstyle without being forced to update your infrastructure code.

Cookstyle vs. Foodcritic

Cookstyle is the replacement for Foodcritic. For more information on why we made the decision to replace Foodcritic see our blog post Goodbye Foodcritic

Installation

Cookstyle is included in the ChefDK and Chef Workstation. If you choose not to use these packages, you can still install Cookstyle manually using the instructions below.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'cookstyle'

And then execute:

bundle

Or install it yourself as:

gem install cookstyle

Usage

cookstyle Command

Use this tool just as you would RuboCop, but invoke the cookstyle binary instead, which patches RuboCop to load cops from the cookstyle gem. For example:

cookstyle -D --format offenses

Rake

In a Rakefile, the setup is similar, except you need to require the cookstyle library first:

require "cookstyle"
require "rubocop/rake_task"
RuboCop::RakeTask.new do |task|
  task.options << "--display-cop-names"
end

From RuboCop

Run RuboCop as normal, and simply add a -r cookstyle option when running:

rubocop -r cookstyle -D --format offenses

guard-rubocop

You can use one of two methods. The simplest is to add the -r cookstyle option to the :cli option in your Guardfile:

guard :rubocop, cli: "-r cookstyle" do
  watch(%r{.+\.rb$})
  watch(%r{(?:.+/)?\.rubocop\.yml$}) { |m| File.dirname(m[0]) }
end

Alternatively you could pass the path to Cookstyle's configuration by using the Cookstyle.config method:

require "cookstyle"

guard :rubocop, cli: "--config #{Cookstyle.config}" do
  watch(%r{.+\.rb$})
  watch(%r{(?:.+/)?\.rubocop\.yml$}) { |m| File.dirname(m[0]) }
end

.rubocop.yml

As with RuboCop, any custom settings can still be placed in a .rubocop.yml file in the root of your project.

Getting Involved

We'd love to have your help in developing Cookstyle. See our Contributing Guide for more information on contributing to Chef projects. There's also a Developer Guide for Cookstyle that outlines how the configs work and how you can upgrade the RuboCop engine.

License and Copyright

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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