Puppet users - Apr 2014 - Any way to have puppet notify me if any files are missing from a directory?

Hey everyone, first I want to say that I joined this community a few days 
ago and already you guys have been amazingly helpful.

One thing that's been puzzling me lately is how I can have puppet examine a 
directory, compare its contents against a source, but only notify you if 
anything is missing. I know I can have it automatically sync the contents 
with the following:

file { '/path/to/file':
                ensure => "directory",
                recurse => "remote",
                mode => 755,
                source => "/path/to/source",
}

But is there any way for it to *just* check the directory, and not move 
anything over? Maybe it can run an exec command if it doesn't find every 
file that it needs to? One thing I was looking at was the creates 
parameter, like this:

exec { "/bin/echo absent >> /home/dpasacrita/absent.txt ":
                creates => "/home/user_name/test_dir",
}

which will create a text file if the directory "test_dir" is absent.
This
works, but it can't check the contents, since there's no source to
compare
them to. So I don't think that's the right way to go about it.

Any ideas? 

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