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Figure 8-4. include_recipe could include a chain of references
NOTE
A rule of thumb many Chef coders find useful is that a recipe file shouldn't be longer than
a “screenful” of code—between one dozen and two lines. Anything longer gets difficult to
understand at a glance because you have to scroll up or down to see all the code. When
your recipe code starts getting this long, consider breaking it up into multiple recipe files,
stitching them together with
include_recipe
statements.
In order to use
include_recipe
, you reference a recipe in the exact same form that you ref-
erence a recipe in a run list, in the form
"<cookbook>::<recipe>"
. For example,
"motd-
attributes::message"
.
Let's add an
include_recipe
statement to our
motd-attributes
cookbook. Generate a
new recipe called
message
.
Chef Development Kit:
$
chef generate recipe message
