[chef] Cleaning up Cron (or other resources)

[Seth Vargo < >]

Hello,

I'm currently writing a script that creates various crontabs based on an attribute like so:

paths.each do |path|

  cron "my-cookbook-#{path}" do

    command "/usr/sbin/task #{path}"

  end

end

This works fine. However, if I remove something from that path, it isn't actually removed in the crontab, since Chef has no way of knowing that I "removed" it from my array. How are people handling this? I could manually delete the cron, but that seems backwards.

Seth