Copy a file in Chef

gistfile1.rb

node.default["copy_file"]["source"] = '/root/foo'
node.default["copy_file"]["destination"] = '/tmp/foonew'

file node["copy_file"]["source"] do
 action :create
 content "This is a file created by Chef!\n"
 owner "root"
 group "root"
 mode "0644"
end

ruby_block "copy file" do
 block do
  ::FileUtils.cp node["copy_file"]["source"], node["copy_file"]["destination"]
 end
 if ::File.exist?( node["copy_file"]["destination"])
   not_if { ::FileUtils.compare_file("/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/client.rb", "/etc/chef/client.rb") }    
 end
end