'knife spork promote' nil error

[username-is-already-taken2]

Hi there

I'm trying to use spork for the first time but I'm hitting an error could well be my setup :)

C:\chef-repo> chef exec knife spork promote sporker_env example_cookbook --remote -VV
INFO: Using configuration from C:/chef-repo/.chef/knife.rb
C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/knife-spork-1.6.3/lib/knife-spork/runner.rb:195:in `exist?': no implicit conversion of nil into String (TypeError)

I'm trying to workout whats missing. I saw on your repo you are now at 1.7.0, I currently have 1.6.3 which is included in my chefdk but I don't know how to get knife to use your updated gem

I've ran chef exec gem install knife-spork and that installed the new version but my knife command still uses 1.6.3

Sorry if its a bit vague, if it down to my setup, happy to do a pr to update docs or something to help pay it forward.

Thanks

Gary

[jonlives]

Is the knife command you're hitting definitely the one installed under chefdk?

[jonlives]

The error you're hitting is checking for the existence of a Berksfile specified in the "berksfile" attribute of your spork config by the way - do you have any value set there?