Application cookbook overriding the default options for nginx

Berksfile

cookbook 'nginx-app', '~> 0.1.0', path: 'cookbooks/nginx-app'

default-site.erb

server {
  listen   8080;
  server_name  <%= node['hostname'] %>;

  access_log  <%= node['nginx']['log_dir'] %>/localhost.access.log;

  location / {
    root   /var/www/nginx-default;
    index  index.html index.htm;
  }
}

default.rb

include_recipe 'nginx'

node.override['nginx']['gzip'] = "off"

begin
  t = resources("template[#{node['nginx']['dir']}/sites-available/default]")
  t.source "default-site.erb"
  t.cookbook "nginx-app"
rescue Chef::Exceptions::ResourceNotFound
  Chef::Log.warn "could not find template your template override!"
end

metadata.rb

name             'nginx-app'
maintainer       'YOUR_NAME'
maintainer_email 'YOUR_EMAIL'
license          'All rights reserved'
description      'Installs/Configures nginx-app'
long_description IO.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'README.md'))
version          '0.1.0'

depends 'nginx', '~> 1.7.0'

Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.define :web do |web|
    web.vm.box = "precise64"
    web.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"
    web.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.60.10"
    web.berkshelf.enabled = true

    web.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "gem install chef --version 11.4.2 --no-rdoc --no-ri --conservative"

    web.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
      chef.add_recipe "apt"
      chef.add_recipe "nginx-app"
   end
  end
end