I try to read out the current recipe name while chef-client run and to store it in a variable or node attribute wihtin an recipe. Until yet i just found a way storing it into a node attribute but it always fails. This is my code:
ruby_block "Fetch Recipe Name From Run List" do
block do
Chef::Resource::RubyBlock.send(:include, Chef::Mixin::ShellOut)
s = shell_out("echo \"#{node['expanded_run_list']}\" | awk -F '::' '{print substr($3, 1, length($3)-1)}'" )
node.default['sftp-selfmade']['extracted_recipe'] = s.stdout
end
end
extracted_recipe = node['sftp-selfmade']['extracted_recipe']
# To debug the output of the node attribute.
execute 'TEST' do
command "echo \"TEST #{extracted_recipe}\""
end
Output:
* execute[TEST] action run
[execute] TEST
- execute echo "TEST "
Output should be:
- execute echo "TEST <Name-Of-Extracted-Recipe>"
I tried lot's of things as also storing the s.stdout output in a variable but this throws an NoMethodError during compiling stage. Also tried to use stronger values like node.override - this works but only by setting node.normal first and the setting it to node.override but this is not a satisfying solution to do this everytime within cookbook code again for deploying to new hosts. Tried also a solution reloading OHAI. But this also did not work. On a completely new host it also doesn't work after a 2nd chef-client run in case of attributes have been set then after first run.
Is there somebody who can help me out?
