documentation help

[coldclimate]

I'm a newbie to using Chef (in Vagrant as it happens) but it would be really helpful if you could explain/expand "In order to use this extension, create a (dummy-) cookbook and add a directory called libraries. Next copy libraries/search.rb to the newly created directory."

[tobami]

Fair enough. The explanation could be more clear.

[coldclimate]

I should probably fork and fix :D

[tobami]

That'd be awesome :+1:

[anentropic]

there's also another file in this repo parser.rb ...should that be copied to the libraries/ dir of my dummy cookbook too?

presumably it has to go somewhere...

[leonid-shevtsov]

Speaking of dependencies, the query parser uses the Treetop gem. Shouldn't it also be listed in the requirements?

[amccloud]

Can someone clarify what "create a (dummy-) cookbook" means?

[anentropic]

I think it just means create a new folder in your cookbooks path

[amccloud]

I've tried that but I'm still getting

[2012-12-30T22:16:19+00:00] WARN: This recipe uses search. Chef Solo does not support search.

I even tried making it a fake cookbook by adding a blank default recipe:

[2012-12-30T22:16:16+00:00] INFO: * Chef 10.14.4 * [2012-12-30T22:16:18+00:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[solo-search]", "recipe[users::sysadmin]"] from JSON ... [2012-12-30T22:16:19+00:00] WARN: This recipe uses search. Chef Solo does not support search.

[tobami]

@amccloud means you create a cookbook directory with any name. Full example:

1. Create an empty cookbooks/chef_solo_search_lib
2. Create cookbooks/chef_solo_search_lib/libraries
3. Copy search.rb and parser.rb to the libraries directory

[amccloud]

@tobami Would cloning this repository into my cookbooks directory suffice?

$ cd cookbooks
$ git clone https://github.com/edelight/chef-solo-search.git solo-search
$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x   2 amccloud  staff   68 Jan  2 10:25 nginx
drwxr-xr-x  10 amccloud  staff  340 Jan  2 10:24 solo-search

$ ls -l solo-search/libraries
-rw-r--r--   1 amccloud  staff  5567 Jan  2 10:24 parser.rb
-rw-r--r--   1 amccloud  staff  3811 Jan  2 10:24 search.rb

[tobami]

@amccloud it should! doesn't it?

[tbassett22030]

Hi. When I use this, I am getting the below exception. Any thoughts on why? I have both a data_bags directory and a roles directory.

[Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:05:35 -0500] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::InvalidDataBagName: D ataBags must have a name matching /^[-[:alnum:]_]+$/, you gave "node[machinename]"

[anentropic]

@tbassett22030 it's telling you the name can only have alphanumeric, hyphen and underscore chars in it

looks like you have quotes around node[*machinename*] where you really want to use the value of that attribute?

[gregkare]

I don't understand why the instructions say to create a dummy cookbook and copy files (especially now, libraries/parser.rb and libraries/search.rb have been moved). It should just say to install the chef-solo-search cookbook using your preferred tool.

[michaelglass]

believe this is fixed.