[chef] Role Attributes not working in shef?

[Chaim Keren-Tzion < >]

I have the following code in a role which I have verified is loaded:

default_attributes(

 :syslogserver => {

  :hostname => "sysloger01",

  :ip => [

    "10.4.0.5",

    "10.16.0.70"

    ]

},

 :oldvservers => "32"

)

 

However...

When I enter the shef shell with: 'shef -z -c /etc/chef/shef.rb' even though it shows that the role is loaded and even if I do:

chef > roles.show("mainrole")

=> role[mainrole]

I still only get results like these:

chef > node[:syslogserver]

 => nil

chef > node[:syslogserver][:ip]

NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

chef > node[:oldvservers]

 => nil

chef > node["oldvservers"]

 => nil

Any idea how I can get the attributes populated in shef? or is there another way I can test them?

TAI,

Chaim