[chef] Re: using a template in a provider fails, because it looks for the template in the wrapper ! whats the solution ?

[Kimball Johnson < >]

You can add the name of the cookbook to the template resource:

cookbook "cccis-weblogic"



> On 13 Feb 2015, at 17:48, Medya 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>
> I have made a resource that has a "template" resource that creates a file.
>
> this is in my provider's action :create
>   #Create silent.xml file out of the template
>   template "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/silent.xml" do
>     source 'silent.xml.erb'
>     owner new_resource.user
>     group new_resource.group
>     mode '0755'
>   end
>
>
>
> I use this resource in another cookbook and it fails because it is trying 
> find the template's .ERB file in the wrapper cookbook which is using the 
> resource...
>
>
> what is the proper solution for this problem? should I use File resource 
> instead of template?
>
> the error I get is :
>
>                                                   
> [2015-02-13T12:39:43-05:00] ERROR: 
> cccis-weblogic[/tools/binaries/Middleware/wlserver_1036] 
> (medya-demo-machines::test_weblogic_lwrp line 3) had an error: 
> Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound: template[/var/chef/cache/silent.xml] 
> (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/cccis-weblogic/providers/default.rb line 48) had 
> an error: Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound: Cookbook 'medya-demo-machines' 
> (0.0.1) does not contain a file at any of these locations:
>
>                                                     
> templates/redhat-7.0/silent.xml.erb
>
>                                                     
> templates/redhat/silent.xml.erb
>
>                                                     
> templates/default/silent.xml.erb
>
>                                                     templates/silent.xml.erb
>