[chef] Error installing application::passenger_apache2

[William Salt < >]

Hi all,

        I am using the application cookbook, and following the documentation to install a ROR stack. I have correctly set up the databag, and the rails install seems to go okay, but the passenger install doesn't?

however, it errors saying "FATAL: NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass"

tracing it back it points to this in the stack trace:

/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/application/recipes/passenger_apache2.rb:27:in `from_file'

and finally this:

server_aliases = [ "#{app['id']}.#{node['domain']}", node['fqdn'] 

app['id'] is set correctly to my_app in my databag - it works everywhere else.

running shef, and querying node domain and fqdn return .internal records from ec2, this looks and should be fine?

Here is a pastebin with full stack trace.

http://pastebin.com/VCeZV12v

Any ideas on what is going on?

Many thanks

Will