Syntax-error in recipe.rb?

[twissmueller]

During a chef-solo run I get the below error output, this is just an excerpt, you can find the full output here.

Any idea what causes this? Am new to chef and cannot tell in how far it is a problem with my code. Also dont't find much while googling for this.

Any hints are highly appreciated!

Recipe Compile Error in /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/discovery/libraries/recipe.rb

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SyntaxError

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/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/discovery/libraries/recipe.rb:5: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting '|'
      define_method("discovery_#{dsl_method}") do |role='', args={}|
                                                        ^
/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/discovery/libraries/recipe.rb:15: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting $end

[cromulus]

👍

[svanzoest]

👎 Ruby 1.8 EOL is set to June 2013. Time to upgrade.

[johnschult]

👍 AWS OpsWorks is still using 1.8. Not a lot of control there for forcing an upgrade :(