Merge pull request #2041 from nsdavidson/Issues-1689

Added exec method to Recipe, addressing Issue 1689

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/dsl/recipe.rb b/lib/chef/dsl/recipe.rb
index 3282320b8c..476d9db666 100644
--- a/lib/chef/dsl/recipe.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/dsl/recipe.rb
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 require 'chef/resource_platform_map'
 require 'chef/mixin/convert_to_class_name'
+require 'chef/exceptions'
 
 class Chef
   module DSL
@@ -162,6 +163,10 @@ class Chef
         end
       end
 
+      def exec(args)
+        raise Chef::Exceptions::ResourceNotFound, "exec was called, but you probably meant to use an execute resource.  If not, please call Kernel#exec explicitly.  The exec block called was \"#{args}\""
+      end
+
     end
   end
 end