Chef_Cookbook_Template

Description

A template for Chef Cookbooks. Includes three gems: chefspec, fauxhai, and librarian-chef.

Requirements

Usage

1. Clone this repo using git clone git://github.com/Lytro/chef_cookbook_template.git YOUR_COOKBOOK_NAME
2. Search and replace "chef_cookbook_template" with the name of your cookbook (preserve case if you want to be fancy)
3. Update the maintainer and maintainer_email in metadata.rb
4. Update YOUR_COMPANY_NAME towards the top of recipes/default.rb
5. Start TDD-ing your cookbook!

• If you want your specs to run against dependent cookbooks:
  1. add them to the Cheffile
  2. install them via librarian-chef install
  3. open spec/spec_helper.rb, then delete lines 11-13, 21 and 22, and uncomment lines 23 and 24.
• If you want to stub out dependent cookbooks and included recipes:
  1. open spec/spec_helper.rb and delete lines 22-24.
• If you don't have dependent cookbooks, then:
  1. open spec/spec_helper.rb and delete lines 11-13 and 22-24.

Note that when using ChefSpec and loading dependent cookbooks, you will be loading any cookbooks in directories parallel to the current cookbook. This is because of the way Chef Solo works. In order to test cookbooks in isolation, you must move them into their own directory. See chefspec/chefspec#78.