[chef] application_ruby database block and attributes

[Cassiano Leal < >]

Hi,

How do I pass parameters (preferably via attributes) to the database block in the application_ruby cookbook?

What I want to do is something like:

application “my_app” do

  ...

  rails do

  ...

    database do

      username node[:my_app][:db_user]

      password node[:my_app][:db_password]

    end

  end

end

It looks like the database block does not have access to the node object.

I have the application resource inside a definition, so I also tried to pass parameters to it, like params[:db_user], but that does not work either.

How do I set those database parameters dynamically?

Cheers,

Cassiano Leal