Cannot access PATH or gems from inside Signal

[manuelmeurer]

When I set up Signal as described and start a build, I get the output "sh: rake: not found".
Seems like "Kernel.system" cannot access my PATH. When I replace "rake" with "/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/bin/rake", I get an error message that the gem flog is not found when the metrics are build, although the gem is installed. When I execute the "rake build" command from the command line, everything works fine.

[manuelmeurer]

This is most likely not a Signal issue but has to do with Passenger. http://www.icoretech.org/2009/08/passenger-mod_rails-path-on-leopard-snow-leopard/

[dcrec1]

Thanks Manuel, will put that link in the README.

[jacquescrocker]

I followed this advice, but it still can't find RVM

* branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.
sh: rvm: not found
rake aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'buil

I have RVM installed, and it works fine when I run script/server and use port 3000. Whats the secret to load in my bash_profile with passenger so it has the same PATH as my user?

[jacquescrocker]

Ok. That icoretech blog post you are linking to is ancient, and no longer works

Found the right answer here:
http://chrismdp.github.com/2010/03/multiple-ci-joes-with-rack-and-passenger/

In your passenger vhost file you can do this to set the path:

SetEnv PATH /usr/local/bin:/opt/ruby-ee/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

[jacquescrocker]

Here's the error I get now.

* branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.
ruby ruby-1.8 is not installed.
'rvm install ruby-1.8'
rake aborted!

[dcrec1]

When Passenger is executed, I think it uses the user that is the owner from the application but with the environmnet variables from the root user, something like this:

su deploy -c "rvm list"

try executing this as root to analyze the output, maybe you need to install rvm as system wide.