Setting Cron using chef - ruby

I have a question about ruby/chef, I am creating a recipe that will setup a cron job once we chef-client the node and I am getting a syntax error when I run my kitchen test
The following block of code is part of my recipe
action node["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["enabled"] = ? :create : :delete
minute node["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["minute"]
hour node["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_teamp"]["hour"]
day node["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["day"]
month node["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["month"]
weekday node["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["weekday"]
the following block is part of my attributes.
#Run the cron every day at 12AM cleans /temp
default["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["enabled"] = false
default["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["minute"] = "0"
default["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["hour"] = "0"
default["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["day"] = "*"
default["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["month"] = "*"
default["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["weekday"] = "*"
when I run my kitchen test I am getting the following error.
SyntaxError
-----------
/tmp/kitchen/cache/cookbooks/hadoop_temp/recipes/clean_temp.rb:25: syntax error, unexpected '?'
..."hadoop_temp"]["enabled"] = ? :create : :delete
I do not understand boolean 100% in ruby what I want to accomplish is if the entry exist create but if in the future I want to delete I just have to switch the attribute to true.

You could learn about the ternary operator in rubylearn about the ternary operator in ruby
I did took the = sign out of the recipe action. now it looks like:
action node["hadoop_temp"]["scripts"]["cron"]["clean_temp"]["enabled"] ? :create : :delete
Thank you #StephenKing the test passed

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"I am not sure why webapp resource is executing before the computation of 'storage_conn_str'."
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What you can do is, create a attribute instead.
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ruby_block 'modify_token' do
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This should solve the problem you are having

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