[chef] Re: Problem calling Win32::Service from recipe

[Peter Loron < >]

That was it! Thanks!

-Pete

On Mar 13, 2013, at 1:30 PM, AJ Christensen 
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> Use ::Win32::Service to break out of the Chef namespace
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> AJ
> 
> On 14 March 2013 08:14, Peter Loron 
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>  wrote:
>> I've got a simple recipe I'm working on to set up some of our custom 
>> Windows services. I'm trying to invoke the win32-service gem to check for 
>> the existence of a service. I'm using Chef 11.2.0.
>> 
>> When I make the chef-client run, it fails with a "Recipe Compile Error", 
>> "uninitialized constant Chef::Win32::Service".
>> 
>> The recipe code is below. I'm sure I'm just missing something basic but 
>> I'm not sure what. I've found other examples of Chef code out there using 
>> this syntax. I looked down in the bowels of the omnibus installed ruby and 
>> the win32-service gem is there, and I don't get an error on the require. 
>> When I run something like this from the command-line on the client box, it 
>> succeeds. The omnibus ruby is the only one on that machine.
>> 
>> Any pointers? Clue stick? Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> require 'win32/service'
>> 
>> target_service = "BogusServiceName"
>> 
>> if Win32::Service.exists?(target_service)
>>                Chef::Log.info target_service + "Found!"
>>        else
>>                Chef::Log.info target_service + "NOT Found!"
>> end