@maxlinc, I'm confused because we're developing a cookbook, not a gem. Our Gemfile is a list of dependencies to build and test our cookbook, not a gem. Currently the 'foodcritic' dependency does not have a version specified so without the Gemfile.lock, every dev will get a different version of that.

We're you talking about Berksfile.lock? I don't see why deploying a cookbook would have a dependency on bundler... this is all so confusing :)