A git pre-commit hook for Chef Cookbooks

This script checks the following, before committing code to a chef server that might cause it to break, die, or otherwise be sad:

1. Checks for trailing whitespace, mixed tabs and spaces
2. Runs knife cookbook test - Ruby and ERB template syntax.
3. Runs tailor - Ruby style conventions
4. Runs foodcritic - Chef cookbook linting tool

A fork of Doug Ireton

To Install

You must put a file called pre-commit in $REPO/.git/hooks/ of the repository you want this script to run on.

# Install Prerequsities
$ gem install tailor
$ gem install foodcritic

# Checkout code
$ cd ~/repos
$ git clone git@github.com:mburns/chef-pre-commit-hook.git

# Symlink (or copy) the pre-commit file to .git/hooks/pre-commit in your chef repository
$ ln -s ~/repos/chef-pre-commit-hook/pre-commit ~/repos/chef-repo/.git/hooks/pre-commit