[chef] shef fails to run if I use a run_action

[John Alberts < >]

I've found a need to use run_action in one of my cookbook recipes to ensure that a particular file is created before chef moves on.  It seems this breaks the ability to use shef, which sucks, because I use it all of the time for debugging, etc.

This is the code that shef error out on.

e = template "/etc/sysconfig/exlsysteminfo" do

  source "exlsysteminfo.erb"

  mode "0644"

  action :nothing

  variables(

            :cnames => `host #{node.ipaddress} | grep -v 'NXDOMAIN' | awk '{print $5}'`.split

            )

end

e.run_action(:create)

I have a gist of this code and error messages from shef versions 0.9.12, 0.9.14, 0.9.16.  I noticed 0.9.12 has a more informative error message than newer releases and helped me track the problem down to this section of code.

Here is the gist: https://gist.github.com/54e6f39586219aac0307

Any idea what I can do to get shef to work again?

-- 
John Alberts