Puppet users - Feb 2012 - Puppet no longer reading puppet.conf

I''ve set up a new puppet 2.7.9 machine with the master running on
Apache with Passenger. Things have been going well and I''m slowly
developing manifests. I''ve also set up puppet dashboard on the master
to act as an ENC. Since the batch functionality for dashboard is
lacking, I used a custom face based off Kelsey Hightower''s dashboard
face to import classes/group memberships from a yaml file. The
khightower page isn''t coming up on github, but here''s the
presentation
talking about it:

http://www.slideshare.net/kelseyhightower/streamlining-workflows-with-puppet-faces-9413828

Everything was going great, until recently I went to update the face
to import node parameters and kept getting errors I needed to install
a new gem:

# puppet dashboard import ~/param-test.yaml
nil
err: Please install the  adapter: `gem install activerecord--adapter`
(no such file to load -- active_record/connection_adapters/_adapter)
err: Try ''puppet help dashboard import'' for usage

The face reads the ActiveRecord connection information from
puppet.conf:

# cat /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
...

[dashboard]
    dashboard_face_adapter = mysql
    dashboard_face_host = 127.0.0.1
    dashboard_face_database = dashboard
    dashboard_face_username = dashboard
    dashboard_face_password = <redacted>

Here''s the code which reads the settings:

  def config(options)
    @class    = options[:class]
    @group    = options[:group]
    @user     = options[:username] ||
Puppet.settings[:dashboard_face_username]
    @password = options[:password] ||
Puppet.settings[:dashboard_face_password]
    @database = options[:database] ||
Puppet.settings[:dashboard_face_database]
    @host     = options[:host]     ||
Puppet.settings[:dashboard_face_host]
    @adapter  = options[:adapter]  ||
Puppet.settings[:dashboard_face_adapter]

    #Setup the active record database connection
    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
      :adapter  => @adapter,
      :host     => @host,
      :database => @database,
      :username => @user,
      :password => @password
    )
  end

I don''t see these settings at all when I run puppet config print all
# puppet config print user
puppet
# puppet config print dashboard_face_username
invalid parameter: dashboard_face_username

# puppet config print all
...
csrdir = /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca/requests
daemonize = true
dbadapter = sqlite3
dbconnections = ""
...

I''m confused whats going on here as the import worked last week and I
can''t figure out how to get more information.

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Check http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7270
puppet.conf doesn''t support that face configuration options yet.

I use the command line option;
>>You can override database setting on the command line:
>>--adapter mysql --host 127.0.0.1 --database dashboard --username user 
--password password
>>the import worked last week 
I have no succes with importing yaml files, other functions work fine. Have 
send an email to Kelsey about this.

Stefan.

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