[chef] After compile - before convergence hooks

[Warren Bain < >]

I am trying to use the information here [1] to have a recipe run before any 
resource convergence.  We are using this to modify any gem package resources 
to use a http_proxy (to eliminate or at least reduce the FetchErrors that we 
often experience with rubygems.org.  We also want to ensure that only one 
'apt-get update' occurs in the Chef run as these are relatively expensive and 
we need as rapid a convergence as possible.  These are peppered amongst a 
variety of community cookbooks that we are using (use case: deploying Rails 
apps on MySQL or PostgreSQL).

When my code runs, some resources have already converged.  I put the recipe 
as the last item in the runlist which obviously doesn't work.  

The key words in [1] are "This can be done today by simply making the recipes 
that include your 'after' hooks run at the end of the compilation".  Any 
advice from folks on how to "simply" make this happen?

Regards,
Wazza

[1] http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/After+hooks