[chef] Re: Re: resource in a ruby_block?

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai!


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Jeremy Winters
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 wrote:
> the problem is that the idempotent condition determines whether or not to 
> run the ruby_block... but the decision to run the execute resource can only 
> be determined during convergence... and not during the compilation phase... 
> as the data in the database is changed in an earlier step during 
> convergence.

If whatever updating the data in the database is a resource, you can
notify the execute.

Supposing it is an execute resource that runs some command that
updates the database:

    execute "thing that updates database" do
      notifies :run, "execute[run my sql script"
    end

    execute "run my sql script" do
      cwd "path_to_script"
      user "root"
      command "./execute_sql_file.rb"
      action :nothing
    end

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