This is a trial of how to use boxbuilder with wschef. Please see pivotalexperimental/wschef for your regularly scheduled programming.

• Decomposed / Modular - As much as is possible / makes sense, you should be able to pick and choose and mix and match recipes.
• Unobtrusive - Should play nicely with the rest of the box, and not prevent things outside of workstation chef from working.
• Reusable - Recipes can be developed within a project and then pushed up into workstation chef when they are useful to others.
• Documentation - A workstation should not become a collection of magic bits, it should be hardware which can be swapped out with insignificant interruption in work.

Chef is declarative - You don't run a configuration script which repeats the same steps, you run a command that brings your machine up to the configuration specified. This approximates "rake db:migrate" - take me from where I am to the current schema.

Install Xcode from apple
Install git from google code: http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/downloads/list?can=3

cd ~
git clone http://github.com/pivotalexperimental/wschef.git
cd wschef
ruby install_chef.rb
cp all.json to workstation.json
edit workstation.json (by default it will install everything. This probably isn't what you want)
edit cookbooks/workstation/attributes
./run

The best way to use wschef is to capture requirements in your project, so they are tracked with your code. To accomplish this, wschef always looks for a project_cookbook and a workstation_cookbook in the "coobook_links" directory. The linked workstation cookbook overrides the linked project cookbook which overrides the recipes in wschef. The default wschef json file calls linked_project_recipe and linked_workstation_recipe, which if overridden in the linked cookbooks can include recipes from the three cookbooks in order of precedence.

cd ~
git clone http://github.com/pivotalexperimental/wschef.git
cd wschef
ruby install_chef.rb
cd YOUR_PROJECT_DIR (or anywhere else that's version controlled)
mkdir -p chef/pivotal_workstation/recipes
create and edit chef/pivotal_workstation/recipes/linked_project_recipe.rb 
(see a sample project cookbook here: http://github.com/mkocher/project_cookbook)
ln -s YOUR_PROJECT_DIR/chef   ~/wschef/cookbook_links/project_cookbook
cd ~/wschef
./run