[chef] Re: Re: ruby_block that sets/alters attributes

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Actually,

node.set[:blah][:whatever] = "bleck"

Is what you want in a recipe.

You can also use the Chef Shell (shef) to debug recipes interactively.

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Shef

On Jul 8, 2010, at 12:36 AM, Alex Soto wrote:

> try node[:blah][:whatever] = 'bleck'  I do that in recipes though never 
> tried it in a block.
> 
> Maybe try @node if node is undefined.
> 
> FYI, A trick I use while developing recipes:
> 
> I use chef-solo on the node I'm developing on with ruby-debug installed
> 
> Then I set breakpoints in the recipes so I can inspect variables, etc to 
> see why things aren't working as expected.
> 
> 
> On Jul 7, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Christopher Bottaro wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I want to set some attributes in a ruby_block resource.  I tried saying 
>> "set[:blah][:whatever] = bleck" in the block, but it errors saying "set" 
>> is not defined for Chef::Resource::RubyBlock.
>> 
>> How to accomplish this?
>> 
>> Thank you.
> 

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