Re: [Puppet Users] What do YOU do to catch undefined variables

Peter Brown
Mon, 06 May 2013 22:41:42 -0000

On 3 May 2013 06:43, Larry Fast <lfast1234@gmail.com> wrote:

> I''m still a puppet newbie and these days I''m struggling
with undefined
> variables.  At least once a week I hit an error message like this:
>        Error: Failed to apply catalog: '''' is not
qualified and no path was
> specified. Please qualify the command or specify a path.
>
> IMO, the core issue is that Puppet has no mechanism for reporting read
> attempts on undefined variables.  So my question to the community is, what
> do YOU do to catch undefined variables?  If anyone has a first class
> solution I''d love to hear it.  But I''m also happy to
consider ANY means to
> detect undefined variables. I may resort to explicitly listing all my
> variables and checking them with a custom ruby function.
>

I use vim with vim-puppet (and a bunch of other vim plugins).
It does syntax highlighting and does syntax and a few other check on saving
a file and lets you know if something is amiss.

I tried Gepetto but I can''t us that over an ssh connection to a server
if I
need to.

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