Same problem here. Lack of environment variables is impacting the
ability to use Cap to manage a Rails app on Ubuntu using MS SQL Server
via unixODBC.
On May 22, 12:07 am, Chris Roos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know (from googling) that some other people are having this same
> problem, so does anyone (Jamis) have any comments?
>
> Chris
>
> On May 15, 5:15 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I've been playing with Capistrano 2 (which looks great) for the last
> > couple of days and have been running into problems caused by the
> > 'empty' defaultenvironmenton theremotehost/s. My main problem is
> > that the PATH is not set correctly. I can solve the problem for svn
> > (bysettingscm_command variable) and rake (bysettingrake variable)
> > but not for arbitrary commands. A little googling seems to suggest
> > that I could edit my /etc/sshd_config (enabling PermitUserEnvironment)
> > and thensettingmyenvironmentvariablesin ~/.ssh/environment.
> > Alternatively, I can symlink the binaries to something like /bin or /
> > usr/bin. None of these approaches seem particularly appealing so I
> > started digging into the code a bit. I noticed that you are able to
> > initialize a Command with options that includeenvironmentvariables
> > (by supplying {:env => {ENV_VAR}}, which are parsed by
> > Command#extract_environment). I also noticed that the only place a
> > Command is constructed is in Invocation#run. Although Invocation#run
> > can take options that include theenvironmentvariables, there doesn't
> > seem to be any way to specify them for the default tasks (in
> > deploy.rb). I'm still pretty new to Capistrano so may have missed
> > something obvious here...
>
> > Anyhoo. I was thinking that we could maybe have a special variable
> > called, something like, env_vars, that was used as a default in
> > Invocation#run. In fact, adding these two lines to the beginning of
> > the run method (combined withsettingthe env_vars variable in my
> > Capfile) seem to have the desired effect.
>
> > # invocation.rb
> > def run(cmd, options={}, &block)
> > env_vars = { :env => fetch(:env_vars, {}) }
> > options = env_vars.merge(options)
>
> > # Capfile
> > set :env_vars, { 'PATH' => '/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH' }
>
> > Being new to Capistrano, I'm not sure whether a) this is already
> > implemented and I missed it, b) this is intentionally not implemented,
> > c) this would be the right way to go about implementing it.
>
> > I'd be happy to strap some tests around this change if it feels like
> > the correct place for it. Alternatively, I'd be happy to submit an
> > alternative patch if you had some strong feelings about how it should
> > be implemented (if at all), and can give me some pointers.
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Chris
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