I get that. I'm a ruby dev, so I totally understand it. I'd prefer to do it your way personally.

I'm concerned about the implications of doing something like this in the long term though. Many Chef users are *not* ruby developers. That's why I'd like to avoid future bundle activation errors or dependency madness. Sigh. Oh how I wish bundler supported a Gemfile.local or something. 

To summarize: my concern is larger than just this cookbook. I'm thinking long-term in the grand-scheme of things.