README.md

Code Generator Cookbook

This cookbook is used to generate new cookbooks, recipes, attributes, lwrps, policy files, and basically any resource chef provides. First, ensure you have this set in your ~/.chef/knife.rb:

chefcli[:generator_cookbook] = '/opt/code_generator/code_generator'

The basic invocation from the chef-repo is:

chef generate GENERATOR

Creating a Cookbook

Using our organization defaults, the command to create a new cookbook from the osuosl-cookbooks directory, is:

chef generate cookbook COOKBOOK