Cookbook version is specified in metadata

[nathenharvey]

Every cookbook should include a version in the metadata file. This is not strictly required though. The Chef server will assign version 0.0.0 to a cookbook that is uploaded without a version.

Foodcritic should include a rule to verify that the metadata file includes a version key.

[jjasghar]

👍 This seems not only obvious, but I know i've always assumed this. We should make a rule to check for this. 👍

the two things in a metadata.rb to make a "valid cookbook" are:

• name
• version

Even though when you do a knife cookbook generate the metadata.rb comes out with:

name             'awesome'
maintainer       'The Authors'
maintainer_email '[email protected]'
license          'all_rights'
description      'Installs/Configures awesome'
long_description 'Installs/Configures awesome'
version          '0.1.0'

[tas50]

This will be in 5.1