[chef] Re: Running ChefSpec without Berkshelf or Librarian

[Richard Murray < >]

Just an update that I finally managed to get a ChefSpec test running!  The problem only occured on windows (on a Ubunutu VM the ChefSpec tests ran fine).  I had to set the cookbook_path as follows in a ChefSpec test in order to get it working on Windows.

# coobooks/java/spec/default_spec.rb

require 'chefspec'

#set cookbook path relative to this file

cpath = File.expand_path("../../../", __FILE__)

describe 'java::default' do

  let(:chef_run) { ChefSpec::Runner.new(cookbook_path: cpath).converge(described_recipe) }  

  it 'should include the openjdk recipe by default' do

    chef_run.should include_recipe 'java::openjdk'

  end

end

If anyone knows a better way please let me know (I'm going to look into Berkshelf to see if this helps).

Cheers, Richard.

On 14 February 2014 11:58, Richard Murray < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi I'm trying to write a unit tests using ChefSpec (and Chef Solo) but I can't get even the simplest test to work.  I've tried following several examples but always get a Chef::Exceptions::CookbookNotFound error on the cookbook I'm attempting to test.

For example if I add the following to the 'java' cookbook (http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/java) 

# coobooks/java/spec/default_spec.rb

require 'chefspec'

describe 'java::default' do

  let(:chef_run) { ChefSpec::Runner.new.converge(described_recipe) }  

  it 'should include the openjdk recipe by default' do

    chef_run.should include_recipe 'java::openjdk'

  end

end

When I run rspec I get the following error:

Failures:

  1) java::default should include the openjdk recipe by default

     Failure/Error: let(:chef_run) { ChefSpec::Runner.new.converge(described_recipe) }

     Chef::Exceptions::CookbookNotFound:

       Cookbook java not found. If you're loading java from another cookbook, make sure you configure the dependency in your metadata

     # ./cookbooks/java/spec/default_spec.rb:4:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

     # ./cookbooks/java/spec/default_spec.rb:6:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.035 seconds

1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./cookbooks/java/spec/default_spec.rb:5 # java::default should include the openjdk recipe by default

I've tried running the following commands but they both result in this error:

rspec cookbooks\java

rspec cookbooks\java\spec\default_spec.rb

I've tried adding a .chef/knife.rb as detailed here https://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Troubleshooting+and+Technical+FAQ) but that didn't help.

The ChefSpec readme (https://github.com/sethvargo/chefspec) mentions BerkShelf and Librarian.  I don't currently use either of those tools, do I need them to run ChefSpec?

Am I missing something obvious (I'm new to Chef and Ruby)?

Thanks, Richard.