improve property-resource namespace collision exception

Signed-off-by: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/property.rb b/lib/chef/property.rb
index a357ba9ee3..9433326b5b 100644
--- a/lib/chef/property.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/property.rb
@@ -522,22 +522,22 @@ class Chef
       # stack trace if you use `define_method`.
       declared_in.class_eval <<-EOM, __FILE__, __LINE__ + 1
         def #{name}(value=NOT_PASSED)
-          raise "Property #{name} of \#{self} cannot be passed a block! If you meant to create a resource named #{name} instead, you'll need to first rename the property." if block_given?
+          raise "Property `#{name}` of `\#{self}` was incorrectly passed a block.  Possible property-resource collision.  To call a resource named `#{name}` either rename the property or else use `declare_resource(:#{name}, ...)`" if block_given?
           self.class.properties[#{name.inspect}].call(self, value)
         end
         def #{name}=(value)
-          raise "Property #{name} of \#{self} cannot be passed a block! If you meant to create a resource named #{name} instead, you'll need to first rename the property." if block_given?
+          raise "Property `#{name}` of `\#{self}` was incorrectly passed a block.  Possible property-resource collision.  To call a resource named `#{name}` either rename the property or else use `declare_resource(:#{name}, ...)`" if block_given?
           self.class.properties[#{name.inspect}].set(self, value)
         end
       EOM
     rescue SyntaxError
       # If the name is not a valid ruby name, we use define_method.
       declared_in.define_method(name) do |value = NOT_PASSED, &block|
-        raise "Property #{name} of #{self} cannot be passed a block! If you meant to create a resource named #{name} instead, you'll need to first rename the property." if block
+        raise "Property `#{name}` of `#{self}` was incorrectly passed a block!  Possible property-resource collision.  To call a resource named `#{name}` either rename the property or else use `declare_resource(:#{name}, ...)`" if block
         self.class.properties[name].call(self, value)
       end
       declared_in.define_method("#{name}=") do |value, &block|
-        raise "Property #{name} of #{self} cannot be passed a block! If you meant to create a resource named #{name} instead, you'll need to first rename the property." if block
+        raise "Property `#{name}` of `#{self}` was incorrectly passed a block!  Possible property-resource collision.  To call a resource named `#{name}` either rename the property or else use `declare_resource(:#{name}, ...)`" if block
         self.class.properties[name].set(self, value)
       end
     end