Recipe fails on crete_if_missing - ruby

Question

I am following this tutorial: http://www.gotealeaf.com/blog/chef-basics-for-rails-developers , where they have us making our own recipe. The code bellow is the recipe. The problem is with the block of code that starts with cookbook_file "id_rsa" and ends right before the, # Add Github as known host, comment. I was able to get past the cookbook_file "id_rsa" block and the cookbook_file "id_rsa.pub" block by moving my id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files into the rails-stack/files/default/ directory, but now it breaks when it attempts the sudo_without_password block. Surprisingly, if I provision vagrant after every error thrown by the action: create_if_missing blocks the configuration gets as far as the cookbooks_file "authorization keys" block but it gets stuck there; even after provisioning when I get the error the first time. Any ideas about what is happening? Please be as descriptive as you can, I am relatively new to devops and only know a few of the ins and outs of vagrant and chef. Thanks in advance!
execute "apt-get update" do
command "apt-get update"
end
# OS Dendencies
%w(git ruby-dev build-essential libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev).each do |pkg|
package pkg
end
# Deployer user, sudoer and with known RSA keys
user_account 'deployer' do
create_group true
end
group "sudo" do
action :modify
members "deployer"
append true
end
cookbook_file "id_rsa" do
source "id_rsa"
path "/home/deployer/.ssh/id_rsa"
group "deployer"
owner "deployer"
mode 0600
action :create_if_missing
end
cookbook_file "id_rsa.pub" do
source "id_rsa.pub"
path "/home/deployer/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"
group "deployer"
owner "deployer"
mode 0644
action :create_if_missing
end
# Allow sudo command without password for sudoers
cookbook_file "sudo_without_password" do
source "sudo_without_password"
path "/etc/sudoers.d/sudo_without_password"
group "root"
owner "root"
mode 0440
action :create_if_missing
end
# Authorize yourself to connect to server
cookbook_file "authorized_keys" do
source "authorized_keys"
path "/home/deployer/.ssh/authorized_keys"
group "deployer"
owner "deployer"
mode 0600
action :create
end
# Add Github as known host
ssh_known_hosts_entry 'github.com'
# Install Ruby Version
include_recipe 'ruby_build'
ruby_build_ruby '2.1.2'
link "/usr/bin/ruby" do
to "/usr/local/ruby/2.1.2/bin/ruby"
end
gem_package 'bundler' do
options '--no-ri --no-rdoc'
end
# Install Rails Application
include_recipe "runit"
application 'capistrano-first-steps' do
owner 'deployer'
group 'deployer'
path '/var/www/capistrano-first-steps'
repository 'git#github.com:gotealeaf/capistrano-first-steps.git'
rails do
bundler true
database do
adapter "sqlite3"
database "db/production.sqlite3"
end
end
unicorn do
worker_processes 2
end
end
****EDIT*******
Since writing the question the first time, I've commented out the sudo_without_password block and was able to find a work around by adding
ssh_keygen true
to the user_account 'deployer' block.
I also put an empty authorized_keys file in rails-stack/files/default/ and that helps the cookbook_file 'authorized_keys' block run without errors.
Now I get this error when vagrant/chef tries to pull the example repo
==> default: [2014-12-04T22:44:18+00:00] ERROR: deploy_revision[capistrano-first-steps] (/tmp/vagrant-chef-3/chef-solo-2/cookbooks/application/providers/default.rb line 123) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '128'
==> default: ---- Begin output of git ls-remote "git#github.com:gotealeaf/capistrano-first-steps.git" "HEAD" ----
==> default: STDOUT:
==> default: STDERR: Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '192.30.252.129' to the list of known hosts.
==> default: Permission denied (publickey).
==> default: fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
==> default:
==> default: Please make sure you have the correct access rights
==> default: and the repository exists.
==> default: ---- End output of git ls-remote "git#github.com:gotealeaf/capistrano-first-steps.git" "HEAD" ----
==> default: Ran git ls-remote "git#github.com:gotealeaf/capistrano-first-steps.git" "HEAD" returned 128
==> default: [2014-12-04T22:44:18+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)

Answer 1

The answer is simple, after I remembered I had a similar issue with puppet. For some reason, not sure why using
git#github.com:gotealeaf/capistrano-first-steps.git
Does not sit well with vagrant/chef/puppet. So, what I did was change the above line to
https://github.com/gotealeaf/capistrano-first-steps
and that did it, my config of the box worked and there were no problems!

Answer 2

You probably have to point the application resource to the private key that will be used used to clone the repo.
application 'capistrano-first-steps' do
...
deploy_key lazy { File.read("/home/deployer/.ssh/id_rsa") }
...
end
More info -- https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/application