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

David Schmitt
Fri, 03 May 2013 09:12:41 -0000

On 02.05.2013 22:43, Larry Fast 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.

Hmm, I''m using geppetto (the puppet eclipse integration from
cloudsmith)
which catches typos as they happen.

I''m very satisfied with it and undefined variables ain''t one
of my
problems ;-)


Regards, David