Chef: Referencing attributes from within a recipe

Question

I have an attribute file titled

default.rb

with a key in it

default['current']

that stores a dir in string format. I wanted to use this for the following command to use when it changes directories:

# Run database migrations

execute 'database migrations' do

  user    'ubuntu'

  cwd     "#{default['current']}"

  command 'sudo php artisan down && sudo php artisan migrate --force && sudo php artisan up'

end

Instead when i ran the recipe i got the following error.

NameError

---------

No resource, method, or local variable named `default' for `Chef::Recipe "deploy"'

Is there a proper way to do this that I'm missing? I'd rather not hard code in the working directory.

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Answer 1

When attributes are referenced in a recipe, we need to prefix them with node.default, like this:

cwd     "#{node.default['current']}"

See also: Overriding attributes in the recipe

Chef: Referencing attributes from within a recipe

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