[chef] mode value for directory resource?

["Mark J. Reed" < >]

OK, this is bombing on me:

directory "/foo/bar" do
    owner "username'
    group "groupname"
    mode 0700
end

I've tried all of

mode "0700"
mode 0700
mode 700
mode "700"

And I always get this:

ERROR: directory[/foo/bar]
(/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/mycookbook/recipes/foo.rb:21:in
`from_file') had an error:
Option mode's value 44 does not match regular expression /^\d{3,4}$/

So it looks like something's converting to decimal (0700 octal = 448
decimal), stripping off the 8 because it's not a legal octal digit,
and then complaining about the invalid mode.  Any help here?

This is chef 0.9.8.

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Mark J. Reed 
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