From 7cdb710e5e1cbf0a1e5f4a25ccae883659fc069f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominik Richter <dominik.richter@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:26:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] dont crash on empty metadata during finalize

---
 lib/inspec/metadata.rb | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/inspec/metadata.rb b/lib/inspec/metadata.rb
index f22a68edd..3accbb99c 100644
--- a/lib/inspec/metadata.rb
+++ b/lib/inspec/metadata.rb
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ module Inspec
     end
 
     def self.finalize(metadata, profile_id)
+      return nil if metadata.nil?
       param = metadata.params || {}
       param['name'] = profile_id.to_s unless profile_id.to_s.empty?
       param['version'] = param['version'].to_s unless param['version'].nil?