OptionParser::MissingArgument ruby error chef 10.12

Tim_Dunphy · September 5, 2012, 8:11pm

Hello,

I come from using puppet to manage our conf files and am very new to chef,
but looking forward to diving in here since it seems like a great tool.

I’ve just installed Chef 10.12 on centos 5.6 using a gem install.

/usr/bin/gem install chef ohai --no-rdoc --no-ri

When I go to run chef-solo for the first time I am running into a ruby
error with the following output:

[root@cloud:~] #/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo -c
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:451:in parse': missing argument: -c (OptionParser::MissingArgument) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1295:inparse_in_order’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in catch' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:inparse_in_order’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1248:in order!' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1339:inpermute!'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1360:in parse!' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-cli-1.2.2/lib/mixlib/cli.rb:154:inparse_options’
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/…/lib/chef/application.rb:75:in
configure_chef' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:62:inreconfigure’
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/…/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:134:in
reconfigure' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:68:inrun’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo:25

I tried doing a : gem install OptionParser

But that hasn’t changed the output.

I was just wondering if I might be missing a ruby module and/or what I
would need to install to get chef running in this host for the first time.

Thanks
Tim

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kallistec · September 5, 2012, 9:00pm

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:

Hello,

I come from using puppet to manage our conf files and am very new to chef, but looking forward to diving in here since it seems like a great tool.

I've just installed Chef 10.12 on centos 5.6 using a gem install.

/usr/bin/gem install chef ohai --no-rdoc --no-ri

When I go to run chef-solo for the first time I am running into a ruby error with the following output:

[root@cloud:~] #/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo -c
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:451:in parse': missing argument: -c (OptionParser::MissingArgument) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1295:in parse_in_order'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in catch' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in parse_in_order'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1248:in order!' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1339:in permute!'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1360:in parse!' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-cli-1.2.2/lib/mixlib/cli.rb:154:in parse_options'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:75:in configure_chef' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:62:in reconfigure'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application/solo.rb:134:in reconfigure' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:68:in run'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo:25

I tried doing a : gem install OptionParser

But that hasn't changed the output.

I was just wondering if I might be missing a ruby module and/or what I would need to install to get chef running in this host for the first time.

Thanks
Tim

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The -c option requires an argument (the path to the desired config file). I seem to remember this having a better error message in the past, I'll look into it.

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Tensibai · September 6, 2012, 12:43pm

The -c option requires an argument (the path to the desired
config file). I seem to remember this having a better error message in
the past, I'll look into it.

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DeLeo

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:451:in `parse': missing argument:
-c (OptionParser::MissingArgument)

Well this sounds a quiet correct
error message IMHO, I can't see a better way to say Hey guy, you forgot
to give me something after -c

But maybe I'm too used to stacktraces
...

Tim_Dunphy · September 7, 2012, 3:44am

Hi there,

The -c option requires an argument (the path to the desired config
file). I seem to remember this having a better error >message in the past,
I'll look into it.

That's an awesome tip! Thanks and I appreciate you looking into this as
well as getting me a bit further down the road of actually using chef as
opposed to puppet. I'm fairly used to using puppet at this point but I'm
excited to learn chef!

So what I've done is cook up (excuse the pun) a little test where I would
remove the 'vim-enhanced' package via yum and see if I could get chef to
install it.

So the run went like this:

[root@cloud:/opt] #/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo
-c /var/chef/cookbooks/jf-beta/recipes/default.rb
[2012-09-06T21:01:21-04:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.12.0 ***
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Run List is
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Run List expands to
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for cloud.jokefire.com
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.005195 seconds
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Running report handlers
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Report handlers complete

And this is the simple recipe I tried:

[root@cloud:/opt] #cat /var/chef/cookbooks/jf-beta/recipes/default.rb
package("vim-enhanced")

Sadly, I had a look afterward to realize that 'vim-enhanced' had not
actually been installed.

[root@cloud:/opt] #rpm -qa | grep vim
vim-common-7.0.109-7.el5
vim-minimal-7.0.109-7.el5

I also tried creating a mysql database this way:

[root@cloud:/opt] #/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo
-c /var/chef/cookbooks/create_mysql_db/recipes/default.rb
[2012-09-06T23:37:13-04:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.12.0 ***
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Run List is
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Run List expands to
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for cloud.jokefire.com
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.005601 seconds
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Running report handlers
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Report handlers complete

This is the recipe that tries to do that:

[root@cloud:/opt] #cat
/var/chef/cookbooks/create_mysql_db/recipes/default.rb
bash "really awesome way to create a mysql database from chef using the
bash method" do

dont if the db already exists

not_if("/usr/bin/mysql -uroot -psecretsauce -e'show databases' | grep
#{node[:create_mysql_db][chef_test]}", :user => 'bluethundr')

run as my user

user "bluethundr"

a heredoc of the code to execute, note the node hash is created from

the JSON file
code <<-HEY_BRO_EOM
mysql -uroot --psecretsauce -e 'create database
#{node[:create_mysql_db][:chef_test]}'
HEY_BRO_EOM

end

Result:

mysql> show databases like 'chef%';
Empty set (0.00 sec)

I was just wondering if there might be some docs to get me past this stage
or even just some basic advice.

Thanks
Tim

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:

Hello,

I come from using puppet to manage our conf files and am very new to
chef, but looking forward to diving in here since it seems like a great
tool.

I've just installed Chef 10.12 on centos 5.6 using a gem install.

/usr/bin/gem install chef ohai --no-rdoc --no-ri

When I go to run chef-solo for the first time I am running into a ruby
error with the following output:

[root@cloud:~] #/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo -c
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:451:in parse': missing argument: -c (OptionParser::MissingArgument) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1295:in parse_in_order'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in catch' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in parse_in_order'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1248:in order!' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1339:in permute!'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1360:in parse!' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-cli-1.2.2/lib/mixlib/cli.rb:154:in parse_options'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:75:in
configure_chef' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:62:in reconfigure'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application/solo.rb:134:in
reconfigure' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:68:in run'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo:25

I tried doing a : gem install OptionParser

But that hasn't changed the output.

I was just wondering if I might be missing a ruby module and/or what I
would need to install to get chef running in this host for the first time.

Thanks
Tim

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The -c option requires an argument (the path to the desired config
file). I seem to remember this having a better error message in the past,
I'll look into it.

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AJ_Christensen · September 7, 2012, 3:55am

Yo,

On 7 September 2012 15:44, Tim Dunphy bluethundr@gmail.com wrote:

Hi there,

The -c option requires an argument (the path to the desired config file).
I seem to remember this having a better error >message in the past, I'll
look into it.

That's an awesome tip! Thanks and I appreciate you looking into this as well
as getting me a bit further down the road of actually using chef as opposed
to puppet. I'm fairly used to using puppet at this point but I'm excited to
learn chef!

So what I've done is cook up (excuse the pun) a little test where I would
remove the 'vim-enhanced' package via yum and see if I could get chef to
install it.

So the run went like this:

[root@cloud:/opt] #/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo -c
/var/chef/cookbooks/jf-beta/recipes/default.rb

-c, --config CONFIG              The configuration file to use

It appears that you are attempting to pass in a single recipe as
Chef's configuration file. This will not work.

I'd imagine what you would like to do is: configure Chef to be aware
of your cookbook path and instruct chef-solo to run the recipe.

Here is the documentation regarding all available Chef Configuration
Settings: http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Configuration+Settings

You'll want something like:

(solo.rb)

cookbook_path [ "/var/chef/cookbooks" ]

Now, you'll want to instruct chef-solo to run the default recipe in
the jf-beta (?) cookbook, like so:

(dna.json)

{ "run_list": [ "recipe[jf-beta::default]" ] }

And then, hey presto..

chef-solo -c solo.rb -j dna.json

In any case, despite all of the above, this is all terribly well
documented on the Opscode wiki; here is a "fast start guide"
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Fast+Start+Guide

It's worth mentioning there is a huge repository of community
supported (and Opscode!) cookbooks at http://community.opscode.com/

Cheers,

AJ

[2012-09-06T21:01:21-04:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.12.0 ***
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Run List is
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Run List expands to
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for cloud.jokefire.com
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.005195 seconds
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Running report handlers
[2012-09-06T21:01:23-04:00] INFO: Report handlers complete

And this is the simple recipe I tried:

[root@cloud:/opt] #cat /var/chef/cookbooks/jf-beta/recipes/default.rb
package("vim-enhanced")

Sadly, I had a look afterward to realize that 'vim-enhanced' had not
actually been installed.

[root@cloud:/opt] #rpm -qa | grep vim
vim-common-7.0.109-7.el5
vim-minimal-7.0.109-7.el5

I also tried creating a mysql database this way:

[root@cloud:/opt] #/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo -c
/var/chef/cookbooks/create_mysql_db/recipes/default.rb
[2012-09-06T23:37:13-04:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.12.0 ***
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Run List is
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Run List expands to
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for cloud.jokefire.com
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.005601 seconds
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Running report handlers
[2012-09-06T23:37:14-04:00] INFO: Report handlers complete

This is the recipe that tries to do that:

[root@cloud:/opt] #cat
/var/chef/cookbooks/create_mysql_db/recipes/default.rb
bash "really awesome way to create a mysql database from chef using the bash
method" do

dont if the db already exists

not_if("/usr/bin/mysql -uroot -psecretsauce -e'show databases' | grep
#{node[:create_mysql_db][chef_test]}", :user => 'bluethundr')

run as my user

user "bluethundr"

a heredoc of the code to execute, note the node hash is created from the

JSON file
code <<-HEY_BRO_EOM
mysql -uroot --psecretsauce -e 'create database
#{node[:create_mysql_db][:chef_test]}'
HEY_BRO_EOM

end

Result:

mysql> show databases like 'chef%';
Empty set (0.00 sec)

I was just wondering if there might be some docs to get me past this stage
or even just some basic advice.

Thanks
Tim

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:

Hello,

I come from using puppet to manage our conf files and am very new to
chef, but looking forward to diving in here since it seems like a great
tool.

I've just installed Chef 10.12 on centos 5.6 using a gem install.

/usr/bin/gem install chef ohai --no-rdoc --no-ri

When I go to run chef-solo for the first time I am running into a ruby
error with the following output:

[root@cloud:~] #/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo -c
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:451:in parse': missing argument: -c (OptionParser::MissingArgument) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1295:in parse_in_order'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in catch' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in parse_in_order'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1248:in order!' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1339:in permute!'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1360:in parse!' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-cli-1.2.2/lib/mixlib/cli.rb:154:in parse_options'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:75:in
configure_chef' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:62:in reconfigure'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application/solo.rb:134:in
reconfigure' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:68:in run'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/chef-solo:25

I tried doing a : gem install OptionParser

But that hasn't changed the output.

I was just wondering if I might be missing a ruby module and/or what I
would need to install to get chef running in this host for the first time.

Thanks
Tim

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The -c option requires an argument (the path to the desired config
file). I seem to remember this having a better error message in the past,
I'll look into it.

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OptionParser::MissingArgument ruby error chef 10.12

dont if the db already exists

run as my user

a heredoc of the code to execute, note the node hash is created from

dont if the db already exists

run as my user

a heredoc of the code to execute, note the node hash is created from the

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