Delete all file in directory older than x days using Chef

Question

I tried removing the log files with:

log 'remove compressed log files'
::Dir['/var/log/*.gz'].each { |f| ::FileUtils.rm_rf(f) }

My request is to remove them based to mtime.

Answer 1

This is just plain Ruby code, not the Chef recipe DSL. A more Chef-ish way to do this would be

Dir['/var/log/*.gz'].each do |path|
  file path do
    action :delete
    only_if { ::File.stat(path).ctime < (Time.now - 60*60*24*7) }
  end
end