[chef] Re: developing a mysql resource

[Jon Wood < >]

On 21 July 2010 13:56, Dmitry V'yal 
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 wrote:
> Unfortunately, I've run into the troubles while writing the provider action.
> Conditional statements of the action body are evaluated before resources
> defined above are run. For example, I can't make a test whether the database
> is empty because It would be created later than my test and corresponding
> 'if' statement is evaluated.
>
> I think it's a frequent problem. I'd like the hear some thoughts and advices
> on how to avoid it.

Are you using if statements within the recipe, or only_if attributes
on the resources themselves?

Any statements which aren't within a resource block will be evaluated
during the compilation phase (shown at
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Anatomy+of+a+Chef+Run).

If you want to run the code while the resources are being run then you
need to wrap that code in a Ruby resource.