directory recursively does not work even for chef-10.16.6

We can create recursively directories according to a guy on below comment though I've not confirmed.

directory "/tmp/foobar/12345-abc" do
  action :create
  recursive true
end

You know well, mkdir -p can recursively create directory. I've expected the directory resource of chef works such that.

For example, if foobar directory doesn't exist, it creates 12345-abc.

directory "/tmp/foobar/12345-abc" do
  recursive true
end

But it occurs an error and stops. It seems recursive option works for only deleting.

Instead of it, I used raw-ruby code like:

require "fileutils"
::FileUtils.mkdir_p "/tmp/foobar/12345-abc"

At the point like what we can writeraw-ruby code, chef is useful.