Issue with Variable Evaluation

[Brian Dwyer]

For one reason or another, logrotate_app seems to have a problem evaluating Resource Properties.

If I try passing in service_user as create "644 #{service_user} #{service_user}"

  Recipe: <Dynamically Defined Resource>
    * template[/etc/logrotate.d/MyApp] action create
      - update content in file /etc/logrotate.d/MyApp from f37b2e to 2ac241
      --- /etc/logrotate.d/MyApp       2016-01-22 17:44:23.244140684 -0700
      +++ /etc/logrotate.d/.MyApp20160122-28294-36d27x 2016-01-22 17:46:41.888167833 -0700
      @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@

       "/var/log/MyApp/error.log" {
         daily
      -  create 644 root root
      +  create 644 [] []
         rotate 30
         missingok
         delaycompress
    * template[PHP Configuration (MyApp)] action create (up to date)

This doesn't work

Defined as property :service_name, String, name_property: true

  logrotate_app service_name do
    cookbook  'logrotate'
    path [::File.join(log_dir, 'error.log')]
    frequency 'daily'
    options ['missingok', 'delaycompress', 'notifempty']
    postrotate "invoke-rc.d #{service_name}  reopen-logs > /dev/null"
    sharedscripts true
    rotate 30
    create '644 root root'
  end

This Works

  lr_service_name = service_name
  logrotate_app service_name do
    cookbook  'logrotate'
    path [::File.join(log_dir, 'error.log')]
    frequency 'daily'
    options ['missingok', 'delaycompress', 'notifempty']
    postrotate "invoke-rc.d #{lr_service_name}  reopen-logs > /dev/null"
    sharedscripts true
    rotate 30
    create '644 root root'
  end

Finally, if you try to use a lazy evaluator, it passes the lazy evaluator object as a string.

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[Brian Dwyer]

I will test this again in the next week or so and see if the issue still exists. Maybe it was a Ruby version issue or something.