[chef] Re: Re: RE: Helper and Resource Order

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Doug Garstang wrote:

> Unfortunately, that:
>  
> file '/tmp/foo' do
> end
>  
> ruby_block 'Call_helper' do
> block do
> ::Chef::Recipe.send(:include, Helpers)
> func()
> end
> end
>  
>  
> yields:
>  
> ==> node1: NoMethodError
> ==> node1: -------------
> ==> node1: undefined method `func' for Chef::Resource::RubyBlock

Methods with no explicit receiver inside a resource will call methods on the 
resource and not the recipe.

Depending on your requirements, you can either rewrite your helpers so you 
can call them explicitly like this:

module MyStuff
  def self.helper(args)
    #code
  end
end

or, you can get a reference to the recipe from outside the block via a local 
variable which gets “captured” by the code block:

recipe = self
ruby_block “thing” do
  block do
    recipe.func
  end
end
  
>  
>  
> Douglas.
HTH,

--  
Daniel DeLeo