Checks

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Click on any of the following error messages to learn more about the check and how to resolve it.

Spacing, Indentation & Whitespace

• “two-space soft tabs not used”
• “tab character found”
• “trailing whitespace found”
• “line has more than 80 characters”
• “line has more than 140 characters”
• ”=> is not properly aligned”

Comments

• ”// comment found”
• ”/* */ comment found”

Quoting

• “double quoted string containing no variables”
• “variable not enclosed in {}”
• “string containing only a variable”
• “single quoted string containing a variable found”
• “quoted boolean value found”
• “puppet:// URL without modules/ found”

Resources

• “unquoted resource title”
• “ensure found on line but it’s not the first attribute”
• “symlink target specified in ensure attr”
• “mode should be represented as a 4 digit octal value or symbolic mode”
• “unquoted file mode”
• “duplicate parameter found in resource”

Conditionals

• “selector inside resource block”
• “case statement without a default case”

Classes

• “foo::bar not in autoload module layout”
• “right-to-left (<-) relationship”
• “class defined inside a class”
• “define defined inside a class”
• “class inherits across namespaces”
• “optional parameter listed before required parameter”
• “class inheriting from params class”
• “foo::bar-baz contains a dash”
• “arrow should be on right operand’s line”

Variables

• “variable is lowercase”
• “variable contains a dash”
• “top-scope variable being used without an explicit namespace”

Documentation

• “foo::bar not documented”

Nodes

• “unquoted node name found”