[chef] Re: Recipe application does not work because chef_envronment is not defined

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:20 AM,  
<
 >
 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have installed chef 0.10.4 and I am testing the application cookbook.
>
> The thing is that executing this cookbookit fails when the recipe
> application::java_webapp.rb tries to get the value of the method
> chef_environment of the Node Object (node.chef_environment). This is the 
> error:
>
> Re-raising exception: ArgumentError - Attribute chef_environment is not
> defined!

First of all, be aware that I'm currently on refactoring the
application cookbook, I will have a replacement ready in the next few
weeks.

Having said that, the current one shouldn't fail like this.
Can you show me where it fails? A backtrace would be most useful.

> I have checked the node with knife node edit command and I have seen that 
> the
> attribute chef_environment is set to "_default"
>
> *****
>  "chef_environment": "_default",
>  "run_list": [
>    "recipe[application]",
>    "role[my_app]"
>  ]
> *****
>
> So, I guess the value of the node.chef_environment should be "_default", 
> what
> is the problem?
>
> On the other hand, I have tried to modify the environment of this node via
> knife by changing the value to "prooduction"  (after creating this 
> environment
> in the chef server as it is said in the Usage section of this cookbook ) 
> and It
> happens two things:
> 1)The recipe still fails (same error)
> 2)The chef_environment in the node is changed back to "_default" after 
> excution
> of the recipe

Regarding #2, that can happen if you edit the node while a chef-client
run is happening on the client.
I assume you tried again, but try again :)

Andrea