No resource or method named `template' chef

Question

Actually try to write wirst cookbook with chef-solo and I am look up to cookbook wordpress to initialize my own site.

But for few hours I couldn't find solution for this bug:

No resource or method named `template' for `Chef::Recipe "create_configs"'

On fragment:

template "#{project_config_dir}/database.php" do
  source "database.php.erb"
  mode 0440
  owner "root"
  group node['apache']['group']
  variables(
    'dev' => {
      'type' => app_db_config['type'],
      'hostname' => app_db_config['hostname'],
      'port' => app_db_config['port'],
      'username' => app_db_config['user'],
      'password' => app_db_config['password'],
      'database' => app_db_config['dababase'],
    } 
  )
  action :create
end

with Vagrant file:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|

  config.vm.box = "precise32"
  config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box"

  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.33.11", :bridge => 'en1: Wi-Fi (AirPort)'

  config.vm.synced_folder "/Users/Tom/Documents/vagrant/destination_server/public", "/home/vagrant/public"

  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
    # Don't boot with headless mode
     vb.gui = false

   # Use VBoxManage to customize the VM. For example to change memory:
   vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]
 end

  config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "/etc/init.d/networking restart"

  config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "sudo apt-get update -y"
  config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.3 -y"
  config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "sudo apt-get install rubygems -y"

  config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "cd /home/vagrant && sudo ./postinstall.sh"

  config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef|
    chef.add_recipe "apt"
    chef.add_recipe "bazaar"

    chef.json = {
      "mysql" => {
        "server_debian_password" => "root",
        "server_root_password" => "root",
        "server_repl_password" => "root"
      },
      "run_list" =>["recipe[mysql::server]"]  
    }

    chef.add_recipe "site"


  end
end

Funny think is that resource "directory" working fine, but the same problem I have with use "execute".

Used cookbook wordpress and added all needed cookbooks and workend fine with this two resources.

I have version 11.10 of chef. Using Vagrant to create VirtualMachine

Any idea? Need help/clue what to do :/

I've seen this just recently on a known working recipe. Re-running chef-client a few minutes later fixed it, so I expect it's a bug in Chef. )-: — Tim Potter

Mahmoud Abdelkader Mahmoud Abdelkader · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-18T03:28:33

While Mark's answer helped you fix your problem, the original issue you ran into where Chef threw the error message -

No resource or method named `template' for `Chef::Recipe "create_configs"'

is actually caused by the template resource containing something that throws a NoMethodError.

So:

template "#{project_config_dir}/database.php" do
  # some code here
  something_(like_a_node_attribute)_that_raises_no_method_error
end

If I had to guess, I would assume you didn't include the apache cookbook in your run-list, since you most likely have all your app_db_config attributes set somewhere.

 group node['apache']['group']
  variables(
    'dev' => {
      'type' => app_db_config['type'],
      'hostname' => app_db_config['hostname'],
      'port' => app_db_config['port'],
      'username' => app_db_config['user'],
      'password' => app_db_config['password'],
      'database' => app_db_config['dababase'],
    } 
  )

No resource or method named `template' chef

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