We have used out of the box hooks for pre-commit for developement and are taken from Pre-commits

We use python module to run the 3 exectutables from OS (foodcritic, cookstyle, rspec) you can use any one or all as you want so you can skip un wanted deps. Make sure you have installed

1. foodcritic: gem install foodcritic See also http://www.foodcritic.io/
2. cookstyle: gem install cookstyle requires Ruby >= 2.4. See also https://docs.chef.io/cookstyle.html
3. rspec: gem install rspec See also http://www.foodcritic.io/
4. pre-commit: pip install pre-commit this is needed so that our pre-commits work.

1. Create a file .pre-commit-config.yaml in your root folder of repo (where you have .git)
2. Add this to your .pre-commit-config.yaml

repos:
-  repo: https://github.com/grizzly-monkey/chef-laughing-octo.git
   sha: ''   # Use the sha you want to point at release tag or a commit
   hooks:
    - id: check-foodcritic   # if you want to run foodcritic for cookbooks in repo
    - id: check-rspec      # if you want to run rspec for recipies in the repo
    - id: check-cookstyle  # if you want to run cookstyle for cookbooks in repo

• check-rspec
• check-foodcritic
• check-cookstyle