assign empty plist before passing to file content property

Signed-off-by: Jacob Zaval <jazava@microsoft.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/resource/plist.rb b/lib/chef/resource/plist.rb
index 4a43605607..2d808452cd 100644
--- a/lib/chef/resource/plist.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/resource/plist.rb
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ class Chef
         converge_if_changed :path do
           converge_by "create new plist: '#{new_resource.path}'" do
             file new_resource.path do
-              content {}.to_plist
+              empty_plist = {}.to_plist
+              content empty_plist
               owner new_resource.owner
               group new_resource.group
               mode new_resource.mode if property_is_set?(:mode)