Fastfood assumes all cookbooks live in ~/cookbooks. Would it be better to show the output of --help if that directory doesn't exist?
Right now, the error is the one below, and we haven't documented the shared/common arguments in README.md. If we could document the defaults or redirect to --help when default arguments refer to paths or files that don't exist (such as config_file, template_pack, cookbooks, cookbook_path), I think it would go a long way to improving the UX for new users.
$ fastfood build fastfood.json
⁉️ Unexpected error. Please report this traceback.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/mart6985/src/virtualenv/fastfood/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fastfood/shell.py", line 274, in main
args.func(args)
File "/home/mart6985/src/virtualenv/fastfood/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fastfood/shell.py", line 69, in _fastfood_build
args.cookbooks, cookbook_path=args.cookbook)
File "/home/mart6985/src/virtualenv/fastfood/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fastfood/food.py", line 58, in build_cookbook
cookbook_name, templatepack, cookbooks_home, force=force)
File "/home/mart6985/src/virtualenv/fastfood/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fastfood/food.py", line 174, in create_new_cookbook
% os.path.relpath(cookbooks_home))
ValueError: Target cookbook dir ../../../../../cookbooks does not exist.
Fastfood assumes all cookbooks live in
~/cookbooks. Would it be better to show the output of--helpif that directory doesn't exist?Right now, the error is the one below, and we haven't documented the shared/common arguments in README.md. If we could document the defaults or redirect to
--helpwhen default arguments refer to paths or files that don't exist (such as config_file, template_pack, cookbooks, cookbook_path), I think it would go a long way to improving the UX for new users.