opscode/chef — pull request #180 by mhorbul (2011-11-14 06:05:06+00:00)
Title: allow to call data_bag from recipe with symbolic name

data_bag(:user) or search(:users, "groups:sysadmin") did not work without this fix with chef-solo, data bag name should be provided as a string. Now both options are supported:

data_bag(:users) or data_bag("users")
search(:users, "groups:sysadmins") or search("users", "groups:sysadmin")