undefined method “cheffish” for nil:NilClass, when provisioning chef with vagrant

Question

I\'m trying to run a django-server in a Vagrant box using Chef, but I\'ve been stuck on this for a few hours and can\'t find anything online. The relevant bit of my vagrantf

Answer 1

Got this due to omitting the name from a cookbook's metadata.rb. Adding the name fixed it.

The message we're seeing is clearly a bug in Chef and hopefully will get fixed soon, but in the meantime perhaps this can help anybody who made the same mistake as me.