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 :/

Answer 1

you sure get that error if, i.e. you write "mod" instead of "mode" as just happened to me

Answer 2

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'],
    } 
  )

Answer 3

I have the same problem. I used this article as tutorial. After all I want to create own cookbook. I named it ruby and saved in site_cookbooks. I added default recipe with simple code:

execute "install_ruby_through_rvm" do
   command "rvm install #{default['ruby']['install_version']}"
   action :run
end

I have tried the solution that proposed by Mark O'Connor but I get only one result every time:

Relevant File Content:
----------------------
/tmp/vagrant-chef/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/ruby2/recipes/default.rb:

3:  # Recipe:: default
4:  #
5:  # Copyright 2014, YOUR_COMPANY_NAME
6:  #
7:  # All rights reserved - Do Not Redistribute
8:  #
9:  
10>> execute "install_ruby_through_rvm" do
11:    command "rvm install #{default['ruby']['install_version']}"
12:    action :run
13:  end 14:  


[2014-02-10T21:50:01+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2014-02-10T21:50:01+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
[2014-02-10T21:50:01+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
[2014-02-10T21:50:01+00:00] ERROR: No resource or method named `execute' for `Chef::Recipe "default"'

I don't understand what's wrong?

UPDATED

I'm just a fool:-) The problem was in a hash with attributes! The correct recipe:

execute "install_ruby_through_rvm" do
   command "rvm install #{node['ruby']['install_version']}"
   action :run
end

Answer 4

It's not clear what the error is, but your vagrant file appears to be unnecessarily complicated.

I would suggest you use the omnibus plugin to mange the installation of chef and the Berkshelf plugin to manage cookbooks. For an example I suggest:

• How do I configure Chef Solo to install Nginx on a new Vagrant box?

Suggested edits

Berksfile

This file is require by Berkshelf and lists your cookbook dependencies. These will be automatically download from the community site. Here I'm assuming that the custom "site" cookbook is located under a cookbooks sub-directory:

site :opscode

cookbook "apt"
cookbook "bazaar"
cookbook "mysql"
cookbook "site", :path "cookbooks/site"

Vagrantfile

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|

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

  # Plugins
  config.berkshelf.enabled = true
  config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest

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

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

  # Virtualbox
  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

  # Chef solo provisioning
  config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef|
    chef.add_recipe "apt"
    chef.add_recipe "bazaar"
    chef.add_recipe "mysql::server"
    chef.add_recipe "site"

    chef.json = {
      "mysql" => {
        "server_debian_password" => "root",
        "server_root_password" => "root",
        "server_repl_password" => "root"
      }
    }
  end    
end

Notes:

• The shell provisioner is replaced by a omnibus variable indicating which version of chef should be installed
• The add_recipe methods will construct the run list for you.