[chef] Oddity with not_ifs on Windows

[Tim Smith < >]

I’m noticing a really odd behavior with not_if statements on Windows and I was curious if anyone else had run into a similar situation.  I’m trying to set powershell execution policy to unrestricted with Chef using the following resources:

execute 'set 64bit powershell execution to unrestricted' do

  command '%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope LocalMachine -Force'

  action :run

  not_if { `%SystemRoot%\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe Get-ExecutionPolicy`.include?('Unrestricted') }

end

execute 'set 32bit powershell execution to unrestricted' do

  command '%SystemRoot%\syswow64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope LocalMachine -Force'

  action :run

  not_if { `%SystemRoot%\\syswow64\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe Get-ExecutionPolicy`.include?('Unrestricted') }

end

The trouble is the resources are always skipped.  If I run the following from cmd as the Administrator I get back ‘restricted’ as expected:

%SystemRoot%\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe Get-ExecutionPolicy

Restricted

If I fire up IRB I get a completely different answer:

irb(main):019:0> `%SystemRoot%\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe Get-ExecutionPolicy`

=> "Unrestricted\n”

I noticed that if I echo the architecture in IRB I get 32bit, while I get 64bit back from the command prompt.  It seems like I should still back the correct answer since I’m trying to execute against 32bit powershell, but clearly something is wrong here.  Any advice?

-Tim

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