[chef] Re: Re: Re: OptionParser::MissingArgument ruby error chef 10.12

[AJ Christensen < >]

Yo,

On 7 September 2012 15:44, Tim Dunphy 
<
 >
 wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>>The `-c` option requires an argument (the path to the desired config file).
>> I seem to remember this having a better error >message in the past, I'll
>> look into it.
>
> That's an awesome tip! Thanks and I appreciate you looking into this as well
> as getting me a bit further down the road of actually using chef as opposed
> to puppet. I'm fairly used to using puppet at this point but I'm excited to
> learn chef!
>
> So what I've done is cook up (excuse the pun) a little test where I would
> remove the 'vim-enhanced' package via yum and see if I could get chef to
> install it.
>
> So the run went like this:
>
> 
 :/opt]
>  #/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo -c
> /var/chef/cookbooks/jf-beta/recipes/default.rb

    -c, --config CONFIG              The configuration file to use

It appears that you are attempting to pass in a single recipe as
Chef's configuration file. This will not work.

I'd imagine what you would like to do is: configure Chef to be aware
of your cookbook path and instruct chef-solo to run the recipe.

Here is the documentation regarding all available Chef Configuration
Settings: http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Configuration+Settings

You'll want something like:

(solo.rb)

cookbook_path [ "/var/chef/cookbooks" ]

Now, you'll want to instruct chef-solo to run the default recipe in
the jf-beta (?) cookbook, like so:

(dna.json)

{ "run_list": [ "recipe[jf-beta::default]" ] }

And then, hey presto..

chef-solo -c solo.rb -j dna.json

In any case, despite all of the above, this is all terribly well
documented on the Opscode wiki; here is a "fast start guide"
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Fast+Start+Guide

It's worth mentioning there is a huge repository of community
supported (and Opscode!) cookbooks at http://community.opscode.com/

Cheers,

AJ

> [2012-09-06T21:01:21-04:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.12.0 ***
> [2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Run List is []
> [2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Run List expands to []
> [2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for cloud.jokefire.com
> [2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Running start handlers
> [2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
> [2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.005195 seconds
> [2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Running report handlers
> [2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Report handlers complete
>
> And this is the simple recipe I tried:
>
> 
 :/opt]
>  #cat /var/chef/cookbooks/jf-beta/recipes/default.rb
> package("vim-enhanced")
>
> Sadly, I had a look afterward to realize that 'vim-enhanced' had not
> actually been installed.
>
> 
 :/opt]
>  #rpm -qa | grep vim
> vim-common-7.0.109-7.el5
> vim-minimal-7.0.109-7.el5
>
> I also tried creating a mysql database this way:
>
> 
 :/opt]
>  #/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo -c
> /var/chef/cookbooks/create_mysql_db/recipes/default.rb
> [2012-09-06T23:37:13-04:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.12.0 ***
> [2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Run List is []
> [2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Run List expands to []
> [2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for cloud.jokefire.com
> [2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Running start handlers
> [2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
> [2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.005601 seconds
> [2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Running report handlers
> [2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Report handlers complete
>
> This is the recipe that tries to do that:
>
> 
 :/opt]
>  #cat
> /var/chef/cookbooks/create_mysql_db/recipes/default.rb
> bash "really awesome way to create a mysql database from chef using the bash
> method" do
>
>   # dont if the db already exists
>   not_if("/usr/bin/mysql -uroot -psecretsauce -e'show databases' | grep
> #{node[:create_mysql_db][chef_test]}", :user => 'bluethundr')
>
>   # run as my user
>   user "bluethundr"
>
>   # a heredoc of the code to execute, note the node hash is created from the
> JSON file
>   code <<-HEY_BRO_EOM
>   mysql -uroot --psecretsauce -e 'create database
> #{node[:create_mysql_db][:chef_test]}'
>   HEY_BRO_EOM
>
> end
>
> Result:
>
> mysql> show databases like 'chef%';
> Empty set (0.00 sec)
>
>
> I was just wondering if there might be some docs to get me past this stage
> or even just some basic advice.
>
> Thanks
> Tim
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>  I come from using puppet to manage our conf files and am very new to
>> chef, but looking forward to diving in here since it seems like a great
>> tool.
>>
>>  I've just installed Chef 10.12 on centos 5.6 using a gem install.
>>
>>  /usr/bin/gem install chef ohai --no-rdoc --no-ri
>>
>> When I go to run chef-solo for the first time I am running into a ruby
>> error with the following output:
>>
>> 
 :~]
>>  #/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo -c
>> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:451:in `parse': missing argument: -c
>> (OptionParser::MissingArgument)
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1295:in `parse_in_order'
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in `catch'
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in `parse_in_order'
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1248:in `order!'
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1339:in `permute!'
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1360:in `parse!'
>>         from
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-cli-1.2.2/lib/mixlib/cli.rb:154:in
>> `parse_options'
>>         from
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:75:in
>> `configure_chef'
>>         from
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:62:in
>> `reconfigure'
>>         from
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application/solo.rb:134:in
>> `reconfigure'
>>         from
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:68:in
>> `run'
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo:25
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>  I tried doing a : gem install OptionParser
>>
>>  But that hasn't changed the output.
>>
>> I was just wondering if I might be missing a ruby module and/or what I
>> would need to install to get chef running in this host for the first time.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tim
>>
>> --
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>>
>>
>> The `-c` option requires an argument (the path to the desired config
>> file). I seem to remember this having a better error message in the past,
>> I'll look into it.
>>
>> --
>> Daniel DeLeo
>>
>
>
>
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