Inspec: checking for user and group

Question

What's the difference between these two?

it { should be_owned_by 'cool_user' }
vs
its('owner') { should eq 'cool_user' }

it { should be_grouped_into 'cool_group' }
vs
its('group') { should eq 'cool_group' }

Answer 1

No difference, just two ways to write it. https://github.com/chef/train/blob/master/lib/train/extras/file_common.rb#L107 and similar for the other.

Answer 2

Inspec supports both styles .

it { should be_owned_by 'cool_user' }
it { should be_grouped_into 'cool_group' }

Though this style looks more like serverspec way of writing it :)