[chef] Re: Re: Help with Chef::CookbookLoader for 0.7.16

[Matthias Splieth < >]

Hi Daniel!

That was exactly the problem. I was wondering that your proposal worked 
because I already checked if the cookbook_path was set.


Thanks for your help! :)


Daniel DeLeo wrote:
> Ohai!
> Hard to say without seeing more of your code, but my first guess is
> that you need to setup Chef::Config and make sure the :cookbook_path
> config option is set.
>
> If you're just doing `require 'chef'` you should get Chef::Config
> loaded so you could just do Chef::Config[:cookbook_path] =
> '/your/cookbook/path' before running CookbookLoader#load_cookbooks.
>
> HTH,
> Dan DeLeo
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:29 AM,  
> <
>  >
>  wrote:
>   
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm trying to develop a application that uses Chef for deploying Software.
> > Because of that, I need to get all available cookbooks. I found the
> > CookbookLoader-class but it seems that it doesn't work.
> > When I try
> >
> > c_list = Chef::CookbookLoader.new
> >
> > I can't access any cookbook. Trying to get the apache2 cookbook I get the 
> > error
> >
> > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.16/lib/chef/cookbook_loader.rb:126:in
> > `[]': Cannot find a cookbook named apache2; did you forget to add metadata to 
> > a
> > cookbook? (http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Metadata) (ArgumentError)
> >
> > but I have no idea why it isn't working.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >     
>
>