gistfile1.txt

# Would love to do this with chef
directory("/home/gaffneyc") do
  uid  "gaffneyc"
  gid  "gaffneyc"
  mode "0700"

  directory(".ssh") do
    # implies uid, gid, and mode
    template("authorized_keys") do
      ...
    end
  end
end

unfortunately this is about as good as you can do without digging into how Resource is coded in Ruby and changing it

["/home/gaffneyc", "/home/gaffneyc/.ssh"].each do |dir|
directory dir do
uid "gaffneyc"
gid "gaffneyc"
mode "0700"
end
end

template("/home/gaffneyc/.ssh/authorized_keys") do
source "authorized_keys.erb"
owner "gaffneyc"
group "gaffneyc"
mode "0644"
end

@mattray: Yeah, that's essentially what I'm doing right now. I'm thinking this would be a nice addition to the dsl but no clue what it would take to implement.