don't know if I'm doing something wrong but for

pool :netociety do
cloud :app do using :vb instances 1..1 end end

i get:

vb is ec2 with a hardcoded response

  def launch_new_instance!(num=1)

instance = ec2.run_instances(

:image_id => (ami || Base.ami),

:user_data => "",

:minCount => 1,

:maxCount => num,

:key_name => (keypair || Base.keypair),

:availability_zone => (availabilty_zone || Base.availabilty_zone),

:instance_type => "#{size || Base.size}",

:group_id => ["#{security_group || Base.security_group}"])

    begin

h = EC2ResponseObject.get_hash_from_response(instance)

h= {
:instance_id => "resp.instanceId", :name => "resp.instanceId", :ip => "192.168.0.6" , :status => "running", # resp.instanceState.name, :launching_time => Date.today.to_s.parse_datetime , #resp.launchTime.parse_datetime, :internal_ip => "resp.privateDnsName", :keypair => "netociety_app", :security_group => "group" } #h = instance.instancesSet.item.first rescue Exception => e h = instance end h end

  def describe_instances
    id = 0
    x = get_instances_description.each_with_index do |h,i|
      if h[:status] == "running"
        inst_name = id == 0 ? "master" : "node#{id}"
        id += 1
      else
        inst_name = "#{h[:status]}_node#{i}"
      end
      h.merge!({
        :name => inst_name,
        :hostname => h[:ip],
        :ip => h[:ip],
        :index => i,
        :launching_time => (h[:launching_time])
      })
    end.sort {|a,b| a[:index] <=> b[:index] }
  end
  # Get the s3 description for the response in a hash format
  def get_instances_description
    [{
    :instance_id => "resp.instanceId",
    :name => "resp.instanceId",
    :ip => "192.168.0.6" ,
    :status => "running", # resp.instanceState.name,
    :launching_time =>  Date.today.to_s.parse_datetime , #resp.launchTime.parse_datetime,
    :internal_ip => "resp.privateDnsName",
    :keypair => "netociety_app",
    :security_group => "group"
    }]

EC2ResponseObject.get_descriptions(ec2.describe_instances)

  end

*** Starting cloud app 1 running instances (1 - 1)
Starting the master instance
Launching and configuring the master
Requesting to launch new instance

Waiting for there to be no pending instances...

Provisioning master...
Building new manifest configuration file (forced: false)
Building manifest
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