Opsworks cookbooks complains of missing method

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I am trying to deploy my rails app with opsworks recipes that I get from AWS. I tried to setup the entire thing by referring a blog here. Whatever he says is "php" or "php-app", I replaced with "rails" and my app name. My role JSON for the app looks like this -
{ "name": "hercules", "description": "OpsWorks recipe run-list for the rails app layer", "app_type": "rails", "default_attributes": { "max_pool_size": 5 }, "run_list": [ "recipe[opsworks_initial_setup]", "recipe[dependencies]", "recipe[unicorn::rails]", "recipe[rails::configure]", "recipe[deploy::default]", "recipe[deploy::rails]" ], "chef_type": "role", "json_class": "Chef::Role" }

When I try to deploy, it runs other recipes well and gets stuck on this error for deploy::rails -

==> app: ================================================================================ ==> app: Recipe Compile Error in /tmp/vagrant-chef-3/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/deploy/recipes/rails.rb ==> app: ================================================================================ ==> app: ==> app: ==> app: NoMethodError ==> app: ------------- ==> app: No resource or method named opsworks_deploy' forChef::Recipe "rails"' ==> app: ==> app: ==> app: Cookbook Trace: ==> app: --------------- ==> app: /tmp/vagrant-chef-3/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/deploy/recipes/rails.rb:20:in block in from_file' ==> app: /tmp/vagrant-chef-3/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/deploy/recipes/rails.rb:2:ineach' ==> app: /tmp/vagrant-chef-3/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/deploy/recipes/rails.rb:2:in `from_file' ==> app:

If I open the rails.rb:20, that function is there - opsworks_deploy do Chef::Log.info("****** hi there *") Chef::Log.info("#{application}") Chef::Log.info(deploy.inspect) app application deploy_data deploy end

Am I missing something terribly stupid here?

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ruby-on-railsamazon-web-serviceschef-infraaws-opsworks
What does that line look like? Also worth noting that most Opsworks cookbooks won't run outside of Opsworks as they expect data to be filled in by AWS. - coderanger
@coderanger, which line do you ask? That file rails.rb has the line and function definition there. Updated OP to reflect that. - Shrinath

1 Answers

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OK. After spending 2 days behind this, in some far corner of google's search results, I found this - https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-5011

Pasting some relevant info below -

A change to the Recipe DSL causes any NoMethodError or NameError that occurs inside a Resource's do..end block to be incorrectly reported as something like
No resource or method named file' forChef::Recipe "default"' For example, the error in the following recipe code is clearly the no_method_here bit inside the file resource:
file "/tmp/whatever" do no_method_here end

However, the error gets reported as:

================================================================================

Recipe Compile Error in /private/tmp/error_message_repro/repro/recipes/default.rb

================================================================================

NoMethodError

No resource or method named file' forChef::Recipe "default"'

Cookbook Trace:

/private/tmp/error_message_repro/repro/recipes/default.rb:1:infrom_file'`

Relevant File Content:

/private/tmp/error_message_repro/repro/recipes/default.rb:

1>> file "/tmp/whatever" do 2: no_method_here 3: end 4:

And someone puts in a patch and a oneliner -

sudo wget https://github.com/opscode/chef/raw/29e732d97ec7e28b2111aca9f93edfd1bc257c2d/lib/chef/dsl/recipe.rb -O /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.10.0/lib/chef/dsl/recipe.rb --no-check-certificate

(assumes your chef client is in /opt/chef)

Hope this helps someone going through same pain.