[chef] Re: Undefined Method drives Sous Chef Mad. Film at 11.

[Nathen Harvey < >]

Ross,

Looks like you're trying to nest resources, cookbook_file inside of log.  You can't do that. 

Check out this gist for the solution

https://gist.github.com/nathenharvey/9092992

-Nathen

@nathenharvey

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Ross Mohan < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Running a trivial "hello world" recipe as chef-solo

sudo chef-solo -c solo.rb -j node.json

This all runs on the same machine. Solo.rb  points to my local cookbook subdir under ~/chef-repo; node.json is a one-liner run list of the recipe. 

The recipe looks for a file in my homedir, and if not there, does :create_if_missing

Or so I wish. 

It cr*ps out an undefined method on cookbook_file:

NoMethodError

-------------

undefined method `cookbook_file' for Chef::Resource::Log

Cookbook Trace:

---------------

  /Users/rossmohan/chef-repo/cookbooks/hellocookbook/recipes/hellorecipe.rb:5:in `block in from_file'

  /Users/rossmohan/chef-repo/cookbooks/hellocookbook/recipes/hellorecipe.rb:3:in `from_file'

Relevant File Content:

----------------------

/Users/rossmohan/chef-repo/cookbooks/hellocookbook/recipes/hellorecipe.rb:

  1:  # This is a Chef recipe file. It can be used to specify resources which will

  2:  # apply configuration to a server.

  3:  log "Welcome to Chef, #{node["starter_name"]}!" do

  4:    level :info

  5>>     cookbook_file "helloworld.txt" do

  6:        path "/Users/rossmohan/HELLOWORLD.TXT"

  7:        action :create_if_missing

  8:  end

  9:  end

 10: 

cookbook_file undefined? I thought that was a built-in? 

Worse, looking in /var/chef for the stacktrace, top error is CookbookNotFound. 

But aye, laddie, 'tis there:

rosss-air:chef-repo rossmohan$ pwd

/Users/rossmohan/chef-repo

rosss-air:chef-repo rossmohan$ ls cookbooks

apache2 apt chefignore hellocookbook starter

rosss-air:chef-repo rossmohan$ knife cookbook list

apache2         1.8.14

apt             2.3.8

hellocookbook   0.1.0

Even knife sees it. 

Any thoughts on what to look at next? 

Thanks in advance, 

-Ross