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In a ruby block I try to create a template:

def create_runcontext
      @events = Chef::EventDispatch::Dispatcher.new

      # Load the ascent-compute cookbook.
      cb_list = Chef::CookbookLoader.new(Chef::Config[:cookbook_path])
      cb_list.load_cookbook("ascent-compute")

      # Create a cookbook collection object for use later, in a run context
      cookbook_collection = Chef::CookbookCollection.new(cb_list)

      rc = Chef::RunContext.new(node, cookbook_collection, @events)
    end

    def create_production_json(customer, assay, mongo_uris, general_config)
      rc = create_runcontext
      t = Chef::Resource::Template.new("/var/scripts/assays/#{customer}/current/#{assay}/production.json", rc)
      t.cookbook("ascent-compute")
      t.source("production.json.erb")
      t.owner(general_config["web"]["deployment_user"])
      t.group(general_config["web"]["deployment_group"])
      t.mode("0600")
      t.variables(
        :hosts => mongo_uris,
        :site => customer
      )
      t.action(:create)
      t.run_context=(rc)
      t.run_action("create")
    end
 
 But the template is never downloaded.  I have to force it to download before the ruby block is created:
 
 +# Hack.  Juke Chef into downloading *.json.erb from the Chef server.
 +%w(production rest).each do |t|
 +  template "/tmp/#{t}.json" do
 +    source "#{t}.json.erb"
 +    variables(
 +      :hosts => [ "blah" ],
 +      :site => "blah",
 +      :username => "blah",
 +      :password => "blah"
 +    )
 +  end
  end