[chef] Re: Re: Creating a delayed action from a ruby_block

[Charles Duffy < >]

AJ,

Thank you very much! I was operating under a belief that "notifies" was for compile-time use only, but it _does_ appear to work at execution time as well.

That said, there are some caveats:

    notifies :restart, "service[shorewall]", :delayed

fails with:

    NoMethodError: undefined method `run_action' for "service[shorewall]":String

However,

    notifies :restart, resources(:service => "shorewall")

does The Right Thing.

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:52 PM, AJ Christensen < "> > wrote:

Try the:

notifies :foo, "resource[bar]", :delayed

On Aug 1, 2011 10:48 AM, "Charles Duffy" < " target="_blank"> > wrote:
> Howdy, all --
>
> I have a ruby_block in which I do some comparison of file mtimes at
> execution time, and -- depending on the result -- may or may not wish to
> trigger a delayed action.
>
> Thing is... what's the syntax to do so? This is in Chef 0.10, and the
> targeted resource hasn't been declared yet at the time (so the old-style
> references, as I understand it, aren't yet available).
>
> Thanks!