[chef] Re: Re: Roles to JSON broken on Chef-Solo

[consiliens < >]

On 07/19/2010 06:36 PM, consiliens wrote:
> On 07/19/2010 12:07 PM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:01 PM, 
> > consiliens<
> >  >
> >  wrote:
> > > Why does chef-solo require a key to generate a JSON representation of
> > > a role
> > > for use with chef-solo?
> >
> > `rake roles` calls `knife role from file` which assumes you want to
> > upload the role to the server. With chef solo, you are not required to
> > convert the role to JSON before using it, however--you should be able
> > to just configure your `role_path` in solo.rb and run with it. I see
> > this is not documented on the roles page in the wiki, and the chef
> > solo page states that you have to convert to JSON first, which is
> > incorrect. I don't have time to fix these right now, but I'll make a
> > note to fix them as I'm able. If you're willing to fix them, that
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Dan DeLeo
>
> I'm willing to fix them. Thank you for explaining how to use roles with
> chef-solo.

I tried role_path and it's still not working.  I'll update the wiki once 
it works.  Here's the code I'm using.

sudo chef-solo --config ./solo.rb

# Contents of solo.rb
file_cache_path File.expand_path( '..',           __FILE__ )
cookbook_path   File.expand_path( '../cookbooks', __FILE__ )
role_path       File.expand_path( '../roles',     __FILE__ )
node_name       'nginx'

../roles contains nginx.rb that uses the Role DSL as defined on the 
wiki.  http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Roles