[chef-dev] Re: RSpec in ChefDK

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:

> Was just working on some slides about ChefDK and noticed that rspec looks 
> like it is still only in the embedded/bin directory, meaning you need to 
> `chef exec rspec`. Most other top-level tools like berks and rubocop are 
> linked in the main bin/ directory so they are available directly, any 
> reason to not do this for rspec?
>  
> --Noah  

For rspec, I think the relevant Chef-specific user-facing use case is 
ChefSpec. The contention there is whether we want to make ChefDK’s rspec 
ChefSpec-specific, which means it locks Chef Client and deps to a specific 
version which would give you the performance boost from appbundler, but would 
probably not be what you want for “generic” rspec usage. We could make a 
`chefspec` executable that we appbundle, but Seth Vargo doesn’t want this and 
he’s the creator/maintainer of ChefSpec so I’m hesitant to go against that, 
but on the other hand it seems like the most pragmatic option.

--  
Daniel DeLeo