Better handle the default values

Signed-off-by: Tim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tasks/docs.rb b/tasks/docs.rb
index 5c00976b85..d6f8f97459 100755
--- a/tasks/docs.rb
+++ b/tasks/docs.rb
@@ -144,6 +144,16 @@ namespace :docs_site do
       }
     end
 
+    # print out the human readable form of the default
+    def friendly_default_value(property)
+      return "The resource block's name" if property["name_property"]
+
+      return nil if property["default"].nil?
+
+      # this way we properly print out a string of a hash or an array instead of just the values
+      property["default"].to_s
+    end
+
     # TODO:
     # - what to do about "lazy default" for default?
     def properties_list(properties)