[chef] Dependancy order problem

[Ash Berlin < >]

Chefs,

So I just got bit by a problem (on my staging server luckily) where after 
rebooting a host the Chef tried to restart the nginx server before writing 
out the new config. But it wouldn't start since it has an error in the 
config, so stopped before it wrote out the corrected config...

The service definition was

service "nginx" do
  supports :status => true, :restart => true, :reload => true
  action [ :enable, :start ]
end

Then later on I (would have) writen /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/myapp.com via a 
template:

  nginx_site proxy_type do
    source "proxies/#{proxy_type}.erb"
    variables cfg
  end

nginx_site has a

  notifies :reload, resources(:service => "nginx")

in it.

Thoughts? How do i fix this kind of problem without manually going in and 
fixing the config?

Cheers,
-ash