Chef/Ruby

gistfile1.rb

# This runs, but during the loading of the recipes, and not when the cookbook should be run:
#
%w{user1 user2 user3 user4 user5 user6}.each do |u|

  puts "I see this output immediately on recipe load"
  directory "/home/#{u.name}" do
     etc...
  end

  bash "I think this might be running on recipe load, but not the directory directive above?" do
    puts "Do stuff here"
  end
  etc...
end

#We tried putting it in a ruby_block, but then it complains about "directory" not being a valid directive:
#
ruby_block "adding the user stuff" do
  %w{user1 user2 user3 user4 user5 user6}.each do |u|
    directory "/home/#{u.name}" do
       etc...
    end
    etc...
  end
end