How to use/implement this Chef recipe?

Question

I am really new with Chef, but am trying to use this Chef recipe:

https://gist.github.com/kardeiz/7273938

I thought that I needed to create a new cookbook and put the recipe into default.rb, and the .erb into templates/default, but when I try to use the cookbook ("dcpromote") in chef-client, I am getting an error:

Compiling Cookbooks...

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Recipe Compile Error in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/dcpromote/recipes/default.rb
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NameError
---------
uninitialized constant Windows::Helper

Cookbook Trace:
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  c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/dcpromote/recipes/default.rb:8:in `from_file'

Can anyone tell me why I am getting that compile error and how to eliminate it?

Thanks, Jim

Answer 1

Looks like you need to depend on the windows cookbook from https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/windows / github: https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/windows.

Try adding the following to your cookbook's metadata.rb

depends 'windows'