Generated projects are unusable

[lusis]

Generated projects are unusable

[sethvargo]

Hey @lusis!

I'm really sorry you are having problems. I reached out via the Twitters, but I'm not sure you saw it yet. I'll respond here for history.

When you generate a new Omnibus project, it now includes a Gemfile that lists all of the gems and their versions that work with the project. You can see that the Gemfile does include a beta version of Berkshelf in it's dependency declaration.

The generated Berksfile evidently doesn't work with any released version of Berkshelf?

This is 100% correct. It only works with a pre-released version at this time. However, that pre-release version is automatically pulled in for you behind the scenes - you shouldn't have to worry about it. That version of Berkshelf is also slated to be released in less than 24 hours barring any major issues.

From the generated Installation Instructions in the project README, you can see that we recommend using bundler and installing with binstubs:

Installation
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You must have a sane Ruby 1.9+ environment with Bundler installed. Ensure all
the required gems are installed:

$ bundle install --binstubs

This will automatically pull in Berkshelf 3 + required deps + put all the stubs in ./bin. Later, you can see that we recommend running kitchen with bundle exec:

$ bundle exec kitchen converge ubuntu-12.04

This will make sure Test Kitchen is using the correct version of Berkshelf. I just performed all these steps locally and verified that it does work as intended.

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I think the confusion lies in the fact that we changed the way omnibus works. You were one of the early adopters of the Omnibus Way™, and we broke your mental model of how the project should work. No matter how much documentation we provided, that was still going to happen, and I'm really sorry about that. I'm happy to hop on a Hangout and walk you through it if you want.