Foodcritic 11 released

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Hey Everyone,

Foodcritic 11 has been released to Rubygems with 7 new cookbook rules and some important bug fixes. The even bigger news is that Foodcritic now has its own org on Github to make community collaboration that much easier. A huge thank you to Andrew Crump who originally authored Foodcritic, and has helped us to move forward with community driven Foodcritic development.

Implemented enhancements:

  • Added FC079 to detect the usage of the easy_install_package resource which is deprecated in Chef 13. Tags: deprecated, chef13.
  • Added FC080 to detect user resources that include the supports property, which is deprecated in Chef 13. Tags: deprecated, chef13.
  • Added FC081 to detect a cookbook that depends on the partial_search cookbook as partial search functionality is built into Chef 12 and later. Tags: chef12.
  • Added FC082 to detect the usage of node.set and node.set_unless which will be removed in Chef 14. Tags: deprecated, chef14.
  • Added FC083 to detect execute resources that include the path property, which is deprecated in Chef 12. Tags: deprecated, chef12.
  • Added FC084 to detect usage of the deprecated Chef::REST class. Tags: deprecated, chef13.
  • Added FC085 to detect usage of new_resource.updated_by_last_action to converge resources. Tags: deprecated, chef13.
  • Updated and refactored API methods declared_dependencies, supported_platforms, and word_list_values
  • Deprecated API methods checks_for_chef_solo and chef_solo_search_supported? have been removed.
  • Added a new API method json_file_to_hash for loading json files as a hash.
  • Added a new rake command to run the regression test on just a single cookbook

Fixed bugs:

  • Multiple rules have been rewritten to use Foodcritic APIs instead of using XPATH queries directly. This avoids false positives created by overly simplistic queries.
  • Fixed FC069 to skip if the license metadata is any formatting of ‘All Rights Reserved’.
  • Added the license and supermarket tag to FC078.
  • Updated the field and field_value API methods to correctly recognize additional formats of data in the metdata.

-Tim