Node attributes are not being set.

[joestump]

I'm a bit perplexed on this one. I'm using the node setting of attributes in other chefspec w/o issue. This is the first time I've used Fauxhai and I'm seeing oddness in that I can't get node[:platform] nor node[:kernel][:machine] to budge from chefspec and i386 for the life of me.

Here's a gist:

https://gist.github.com/joestump/045969db1928537807d9

When I puts my node[:platform] (or node[:kernel][:machine]) they are never set as I'd expect (should be ubuntu and x86_64).

I was trying to add tests to my rstudio cookbook.

[joestump]

Also getting this, which might be related. I can't set an attribute that is set as default['some']['attribute'] without an exception being thrown.

/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p353/bin/ruby -S rspec ./spec/cran_spec.rb
F

Failures:

  1) rstudio::server should include the r cookbook
     Failure/Error: node['rstudio']['cran']['packages'] = 'aadsf'
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
     # ./spec/cran_spec.rb:12:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
     # ./spec/cran_spec.rb:11:in `new'
     # ./spec/cran_spec.rb:11:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
     # ./spec/cran_spec.rb:17:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 1.22 seconds
1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/cran_spec.rb:16 # rstudio::server should include the r cookbook
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p353/bin/ruby -S rspec ./spec/cran_spec.rb failed

Here's the spec

require 'spec_helper'

describe 'rstudio::server' do
#  before do
#    Fauxhai.mock(platform: 'ubuntu', version: '12.04') do |node|
#      # node['rstudio']['cran']['packages'] = 'aadsf'
#      node['languages']['ruby']['version'] = 'ree'
#    end
#  end
  let(:chef_run) do
    ChefSpec::Runner.new do |node|
      node['rstudio']['cran']['packages'] = 'aadsf'
    end.converge(described_recipe)
  end

  it('should include the r cookbook') do
    expect(chef_run).to include_recipe('r')
  end
end

[sethvargo]

That cookbook you posted is a 404. Since ChefSpec 2.0, you don't ever call fauxhai directly - it's used under the covers. Make a new Chef runner with the platform you want:

describe 'rstudio::server' do
  let(:chef_run) { ChefSpec::Runner.new(platform: 'ubuntu', version: '12.04').converge(described_recipe) }

  it 'includes the r cookbook' do
    expect(chef_run).to include_recipe('r')
  end
end

You can also configure these options globally. All of this is explained in the ChefSpec configuration documentation and ChefSpec attribute setting documentation.

[joestump]

Ah, got it. 👍

[dasomx77]

Hey there Seth, I pretty much have the same issue as the one above and your solution doesn't seem to help solve the issue. I get

Failure/Error: ChefSpec::Runner.new do |node|
     ArgumentError:
       Cannot find a platform for node[fauxhai.local]

when trying to run:

let(:dummy_class) {
    Class.new {include Cookbook_name::Helper_module }
    ChefSpec::Runner.new(platform: 'ubuntu', version: '12.04') do |node|
      node.default.set['Cookbook_name']['attribute_name'] = '/aaa/va/files/'
    end.converge(described_recipe)
}

and given the stack trace, this is where it fails:

it 'should have the directory we are looking for' do
  expect(chef_run).to create_directory('/aaa/va/files/')
end

any idea what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks