[chef] Re: Re: Chefspec and accessing a node attribute within EncryptedDataBagItem.load

[Bryan Bishop < >]

Thank you Pete!  This has helped me on my way, I thought my problem
was the node attribute but it turned out to be stubbing the data bag.

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Pete Cheslock 
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 wrote:
> What I think you want to do is to stub out your databag in the before block
> so that chefspec can execute your tests on that data.
>
> Here is an example of what I've done.
> https://gist.github.com/petecheslock/5f6d34ff05680b2b5ec5
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> More info:
> https://github.com/sethvargo/chefspec#data-bag--data-bag-item
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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Bryan Bishop 
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> wrote:
>>
>> Hello great chefs!
>>
>> I'm running into trouble using ChefSpec 3.2.0 and converging a
>> ChefSpec runner with an encrypted data bag.  The data bag I'm trying
>> to load is referenced by a node attribute, like this:
>>
>>
>>     mysql_passwords =
>> Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load(node['percona']['encrypted_data_bag'],
>> "mysql")
>>
>>
>> So in my ChefSpec runner, I've set that node attribute:
>>
>>     let(:chef_run) do
>>       ChefSpec::Runner.new do |node|
>>         node.override["percona"]["encrypted_data_bag"] = 'something'
>>       end.converge(described_recipe)
>>     end
>>
>> But converging the ChefSpec running seems to choke on this.  Are these
>> attributes not being assigned in the Runner object?  I've placed a
>> puts statement in my recipe code and the tests print out the correct
>> bogus attribute I defined, "something."
>>
>>   4>> mysql_passwords =
>> Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load(node['percona']['encrypted_data_bag'],
>> "mysql")
>>
>> Failures:
>>
>>   1) prsn_epen2::_deploy_common does something
>>      Failure/Error: end.converge(described_recipe)
>>      TypeError:
>>        no implicit conversion of Array into String
>>
>>
>> I'm sure this is something obvious, can anyone help me please?  I
>> really appreciate the discussions on this list!
>>
>>
>>
>> - Bryan
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