chef cookbook fails on ohai undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass - nginx

I'm working on a chef cookbook to set up a vanilla ubuntu 12.04.2 with nginx postgresql and unicorn on my vagrant box, but I'm getting into troubles with nginx, there's an exception
undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
when installing it that seem to relate to ohai configuration.
I've posted all I have here:
https://github.com/DonGiulio/mychef
here's the output from chef-solo:
Starting Chef Client, version 11.4.0
Compiling Cookbooks...
================================================================================
Recipe Compile Error in /var/chef/cookbooks/nginx/recipes/source.rb
================================================================================
NoMethodError
-------------
undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
Cookbook Trace:
---------------
/var/chef/cookbooks/nginx/recipes/ohai_plugin.rb:27:in `from_file'
/var/chef/cookbooks/nginx/recipes/source.rb:42:in `from_file'
Relevant File Content:
----------------------
/var/chef/cookbooks/nginx/recipes/ohai_plugin.rb:
20: #
21:
22: ohai 'reload_nginx' do
23: plugin 'nginx'
24: action :nothing
25: end
26:
27>> template "#{node['ohai']['plugin_path']}/nginx.rb" do
28: source 'plugins/nginx.rb.erb'
29: owner 'root'
30: group 'root'
31: mode '0755'
32: notifies :reload, 'ohai[reload_nginx]', :immediately
33: end
34:
35: include_recipe 'ohai::default'
36:
[2013-11-19T14:22:23+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2013-11-19T14:22:23+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated
[2013-11-19T14:22:23+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
[2013-11-19T14:22:23+00:00] FATAL: NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
and here's the stacktrace:
$ cat /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
Generated at 2013-11-19 14:22:23 +0000
NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
/var/chef/cookbooks/nginx/recipes/ohai_plugin.rb:27:in `from_file'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/mixin/from_file.rb:30:in `instance_eval'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/mixin/from_file.rb:30:in `from_file'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/cookbook_version.rb:346:in `load_recipe'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/run_context.rb:151:in `load_recipe'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/run_context.rb:132:in `block in include_recipe'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/run_context.rb:131:in `each'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/run_context.rb:131:in `include_recipe'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/dsl/include_recipe.rb:26:in `include_recipe'
/var/chef/cookbooks/nginx/recipes/source.rb:42:in `from_file'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/mixin/from_file.rb:30:in `instance_eval'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/mixin/from_file.rb:30:in `from_file'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/cookbook_version.rb:346:in `load_recipe'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/run_context.rb:151:in `load_recipe'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:139:in `block in compile_recipes'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:137:in `each'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:137:in `compile_recipes'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:74:in `compile'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/run_context.rb:86:in `load'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/client.rb:224:in `setup_run_context'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/client.rb:467:in `do_run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/client.rb:200:in `run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/application.rb:190:in `run_chef_client'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:239:in `block in run_application'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:231:in `loop'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:231:in `run_application'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/application.rb:73:in `run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/bin/chef-solo:25:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/bin/chef-solo:23:in `load'
/usr/bin/chef-solo:23:in `<main>'
UPDATE 1
I'm provisioning the box with ruby-2.0.0-p247, is there a dependency on an earlier version of ruby maybe?
UPDATE 2
I've tried with ruby-1.9.3-p448, on a freshly provisioned box, same problem, no change.
Could you please help me?
thanks,

You haven't stated which version of the ohai and nginx cookbooks you're using.
While I can't answer your question I can provide some advice on managing your cookbooks by using a dependency manager (think bundler for cookbooks).
Install Berkshelf
gem install berkshelf
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$ cat Berksfile
site :opscode
cookbook "nginx"
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Using nginx (2.0.0)
Using apt (2.3.0)
Using bluepill (2.3.0)
Using rsyslog (1.9.0)
Using build-essential (1.4.2)
Using ohai (1.1.12)
Using runit (1.2.0)
Using yum (2.3.2)
The "-p" option places them in the "cookbooks" subdirectory:
$ ls -d cookbooks/*
cookbooks/apt
cookbooks/build-essential
cookbooks/ohai
cookbooks/runit
cookbooks/bluepill
cookbooks/nginx
cookbooks/rsyslog
cookbooks/yum

I have experienced the same error. You may find 3 other solutions to this problem, and an explanation why it's happening here on stackoverflow.
To mention one for those using Vagrant: Just include the recipe through Vagrantfile "chef.add_recipe()".
Using Berkshelf is obviously solving the issue, and I honestly like it. Just think that we should save the time of those who doesn't want to bother with installing new tools.

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depends "nginx", ">= 1.8.0"
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following command on Ubuntu and it started working for me
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/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.0/bin/chef-client:26:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/bin/chef-client:23:in `load'
/usr/bin/chef-client:23:in `<main>'
Any help or pointers?
I have resolved this issue. It appears that the environment was not created properly. So when I was bootstrapping the node, its environment was being set to "_default", hence the node was unable to locate the items.
I recreated the environment, and bootstrapped node by passing --environment parameter, and I was able to bootstrap without any issues.
Once again, thanks to all the contributors for their inputs. This community is awesome!
Try adding the following line to your recipe:
11. CHEF_ENV = node.chef_environment
+ 12. Chef::Config[:encrypted_data_bag_secret]
13. http_ssl_creds = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load("#{CHEF_ENV}", "http-ssl")
14. PRIVATE_KEY = http_ssl_creds['private_key']
15. CHAIN_FILE= http_ssl_creds['chain_file']
16. CERT= http_ssl_creds['cert']
Another thing to check is that the node environment is the name of your encrypted data bag.
since you 've copied the /etc/chef/encrypted_data_bag_secret to the node, that should do the trick.

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