I am rather new to chef and I am using it with vagrant and librarian-chef.
I just spent several hours, getting the jboss cookbook to work.
I tried with the "official version" 0.0.3 and the current version from github. Always resulting in various errors.

The current version gives the following error message, when running the default recipe. And I have no idea, where jboss_parent should come from, and which value it should have, same for #{tarball_name} several lines below in default.rb.
Others seem to have had similar problems: chrispernicano@d52c68a

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Cannot find a resource for jboss_parent on ubuntu version 12.04←[0m

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/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/jboss/recipes/default.rb:13:in `from_file'←[0m

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/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/jboss/recipes/default.rb:

6: #
7: # license Apache v2.0
8: #
9:
10: jboss_home = node['jboss']['jboss_home']
11: jboss_user = node['jboss']['jboss_user']
12:
13>> directory jboss_parent do
14: group jboss_user
15: owner jboss_user
16: mode "0755"
17: end
18:
19: # get files
20: bash "put_files" do
21: code <<-EOH
22: cd /tmp
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