undefined method `nssm' for cookbook

Question

I am trying to install a jmeter service using nssm through cookbook.

but while running chef converge I am getting below error

FATAL: NoMethodError: undefined method `nssm' for cookbook: (chef-apply cookbook), recipe: (chef-apply recipe) :Chef::Recipe

here is the code

first I have installed the nssm to my local VM using below command in chef

  chocolatey_package 'nssm' do
    action    :install
    version  '2.24.101.20180116'
  end

then wants to install the jmeter service using nssm in chef

nssm 'jmeter_service' do
    program 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\jmeter\tools\apache-jmeter-5.2.1\bin\jmeter-server.bat'
    parameters(
      AppDirectory: 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\jmeter\tools\apache-jmeter-5.2.1\bin',
      AppStdout: 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\jmeter\tools\apache-jmeter-5.2.1\bin\output.log',
      AppStderr: 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\jmeter\tools\apache-jmeter-5.2.1\bin\error.log',
      #AppRotateFiles: 1
    )
    action %i[install start]
  end

Thanks in advance

Can you include relevant code from the cookbook/recipe in your question? A [minimal-reproducible-example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example) would be ideal. — seshadri_c, Oct 11 '21 at 14:02

seshadri_c · Answer 1 · 2021-10-11T15:54:03.883

You seem to be using nssm supermarket cookbook, and the failure seems to indicate that you are running chef-apply, that can only run a single recipe.

But since you are trying to use a custom resource from another cookbook, you need to:

Have a cookbook of your own
Have the nssm (and its dependent windows cookbook) locally or on Chef server
Define the dependency for the nssm cookbook in your cookbooks metadata.rb
The chocolatey_package will install the nssm binary, which is different from nssm 'something' do

For an example of local setup:

Download the nssm and windows cookbooks from Supermarket to cookbooks path
Create another simple cookbook (e.g. mycookbook) with your recipe and metadata.rb
Define dependency in metadata.rb:
```
depends 'nssm', '~> 4.0.1'
```
Optionally remove the chocolatey_package resource
Run your cookbook with chef-client or chef-zero
```
chef-client -z -r recipe[mycookbook]
```

undefined method `nssm' for cookbook

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