How to create a user before a role is executed

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Hello.

I'm trying to use the role `rvm_io.ruby`[1] specifying the variable
`rvm1_user` to a user that is being created in the same playbook, but
the provisioning fail because the role is being executed before that
happen.

I get the following error:

    Failed to set permissions on the temporary files Ansible needs to
create when becoming an unprivileged user (rc: 1, err: chown: invalid
user: ‘deploy’\n}). For information on working around this, see
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/become.html#becoming-an-unprivileged-user

The user I try to use is called `deploy` (mentioned in the error message).

[1] https://github.com/rvm/rvm1-ansible

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As documented, One can use pre-tasks to write tasks to be executed before any role:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/user_guide/playbooks_reuse_roles.html#using-roles