ProvidesMetadata

The department is: ProvidesMetadata

The full name of the cop is: Chef/RedundantCode/ProvidesMetadata

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

The provides metadata.rb method is not used and is unnecessary in cookbooks.

Examples


provides "some_thing"

Name	Default value	Configurable values
Version Added	5.1.0	String
Include	`**/metadata.rb`	Array

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