Puppet

I get this failure when I try to use ralsh to read a file:

luke@localhost $ ralsh --trace file /etc
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/type.rb:747:in `[]'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/type/file.rb:290:in `[]'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/type/file.rb:302:in `instances'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/type/file.rb:298:in `each'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/type/file.rb:298:in `instances'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/indirector/resource/ral.rb:4:in `find'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/indirector/indirection.rb:193:in `find'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/indirector.rb:50:in `find'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/application/resource.rb:79:in `main'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/application.rb:308:in `run_command'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/application.rb:300:in `run'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/application.rb:397:in `exit_on_fail'
/Users/luke/puppet/lib/puppet/application.rb:300:in `run'
/Users/luke/puppet/bin/ralsh:4
Could not run: Global resource access is deprecated
[master ~/puppet]
luke@localhost $

I can successfully create files with it, but not read them.