Chef notification and subscription ordering

notifies_and_subscriptions_timing.rb

# These resources will essentially run in this order.
# You must understand how the converge step in chef works before this will make sense.
# Even if you defined these resources in another order, this will still print the 
# statements in order (FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, ...)

# The :before timers always occur before the resource doing the notifying/subscribed to.
# The :immediate/:immediately timers always occur after the resource doing the notifying/subscribed to.
# When there are notifications and subscriptions with the same timing on a resource
# notifications will fire before subscriptions.

ruby_block "n-test-before" do
  block do
    Chef::Log.info("FIRST")
  end
  action :nothing
end

ruby_block "n-test-sub-before" do
  block do
    Chef::Log.info("SECOND")
  end
  action :nothing
  subscribes :run, 'ruby_block[n-test]', :before
end

ruby_block "n-test" do
  block do
    Chef::Log.info("THIRD")
  end
  notifies :run, 'ruby_block[n-test-before]', :before
  notifies :run, 'ruby_block[n-test-immediate]', :immediately
end

ruby_block "n-test-immediate" do
  block do
    Chef::Log.info("FOURTH")
  end
  action :nothing
end

ruby_block "n-test-sub-immediate" do
  block do
    Chef::Log.info("FIFTH")
  end
  action :nothing
  subscribes :run, 'ruby_block[n-test]', :immediately
end