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

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Ross Mohan 
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 wrote:
> 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
>
> chef > cookbooks.all
>
> [2014-02-19T10:11:42-05:00] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> https://localhost/cookbooks, retry 1/5

chef-shell in standalone mode doesn't load cookbooks.

http://docs.opscode.com/chef_shell.html

Loading chef-shell in client mode with "chef-shell -z" is probably
what you wanted. It can take a little getting used to.

Bryan