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

[Ross Mohan < >]

Wow. That was fast. 

rosss-air:.chef rossmohan$ sudo chef-solo -c solo.rb -j node.json

Password:

Starting Chef Client, version 11.10.2

Compiling Cookbooks...

Converging 1 resources

Recipe: hellocookbook::hellorecipe

  * cookbook_file[helloworld.txt] action create_if_missing

    - create new file /Users/rossmohan/HELLOWORLD.TXT

    - update content in file /Users/rossmohan/HELLOWORLD.TXT from none to 4ef28a

        --- /Users/rossmohan/HELLOWORLD.TXT 2014-02-19 09:44:01.000000000 -0500

        +++ /tmp/.helloworld.txt20140219-26170-mpfeit 2014-02-19 09:44:01.000000000 -0500

        @@ -1 +1,4 @@

        +This is the file I put in the files/default subdir of cookbook Hellocookbook for slurping up by chef(-solo) and placement in my homedir. 

        +

        +Let's see if it worked.....

Running handlers:

Running handlers complete

Chef Client finished, 1/1 resources updated in 2.052297 seconds

I guess the prohibition on nesting execute resource blocks is inherited from Ruby. 

Thank you! 

I did try debugging via single-stepping chef-shell, but it gave me hours of grief on "connection refused" (regardless of firewall state)

rosss-air:.chef rossmohan$ chef-shell

loading configuration: none (standalone session)

Session type: standalone

Loading...done.

This is the chef-shell.

 Chef Version: 11.10.2

 http://www.opscode.com/chef

 http://docs.opscode.com/

run `help' for help, `exit' or ^D to quit.

Ohai2u

chef > cookbooks.all

[2014-02-19T10:11:42-05:00] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to https://localhost/cookbooks, retry 1/5

...

<snip>​​​

Thanks again, 

Ross

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From: Nathen Harvey < >
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 9:18 AM
To:
Subject: [chef] Re: Undefined Method drives Sous Chef Mad. Film at 11.

 

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