[chef] Issue with encrypted data bags

[Russ Lavoy < >]

I am having an issue with encrypted data bags with chef 11.4.4 and vagrant 
1.2.2.

I was able to successfully create, show encrypted and decrypted data bags 
with no issue via knife.

But once I dropped it into a recipe it threw me an error.

Here is the portion of the recipe that does not error.

secret = 
Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load_secret("#{node[:production][:secretpath]}") - 
This spits back the contents of the /etc/chef/encrypted_data_bag_secret


When I add the below it throws an error
pass_keys = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load("production", "passwords", secret)


<error>
[2013-06-18T18:43:48+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ValidationFailed: Data 
Bag Items must contain a Hash or Mash!

</error>

Not sure why I am getting this issue.

Any help would be good.

Thanks!