Running recipe name

Question

In Chef, is possible to get the recipe name when this recipe is running?

I want to add recipe name on logging/debugging. Something like:

Chef:Log.info "#{recipe_name} xxxx"

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '13 at 21:30

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You can actually get the recipe name exactly the way you suggested in the question!

Chef::Log.info("I am a message from the #{recipe_name} recipe in the #{cookbook_name} cookbook.")

This and other handy methods are documented in the Recipe DSL page on the Opscode site.

answered Jul 27 '13 at 21:30

zts

It's also in chef 10.18.X or only in 11 ? – Sacx Jul 29 '13 at 08:47
Good question - I'm pretty sure I used that in 10.14 (if not earlier), but I don't have it installed somewhere to test. – zts Jul 29 '13 at 10:59

Tim Potter · Answer 2 · 2013-02-13T21:02:58.737

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I'm not sure about the recipe name, but you can use __FILE__ to log the filename of the currently executing Ruby script:

Chef::Log.info("#{__FILE__}")

shows up as

[2013-02-13T20:39:10+00:00] INFO: /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/gem/recipes/default.rb

at least for chef-solo.

edited Feb 13 '13 at 21:02

answered Feb 13 '13 at 20:46

Tim Potter

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 11 '17 at 13:43

I'm aware this is an old post, but it is still the top Google result, so I thought an updated answer for Chef 12 would be good to add in.

In Chef 12, I use this directly in my recipe:

log("Recipe @ #{__FILE__}")

The output looks like this:

* log[Recipe @ /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/crafter-cms-dev/recipes/test.rb] action write

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