I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.4 TLS
I wrote a simple shell script in /home/abdo/sample_serv.sh that executes a Ruby file:
#!/bin/bash
/home/abdo/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.0/bin/ruby /home/abdo/sample_serv.rb
and /home/abdo/sample_serv.rb containing the code below:
puts $:
require 'sinatra'
set :port, 8084
get '/' do
%{ <html><body>Hello from Abdo</body></html> }
end
Executing rvmsudo ./home/abdo/sample_serv.sh works just fine but I would like to get sudo ./home/abdo/sample_serv.sh to work by passing the necessary environment variables because I am having issues with upstart.
The issue arises in my /etc/init/foo.conf
description "webserver test"
start on runlevel [23]
stop on shutdown
pre-start script
exec >> /var/log/unicorn_test.log 2>&1
echo starting
end script
script
exec >> /var/log/unicorn_test.log 2>&1
/bin/bash /home/abdo/.rvm/bin/rvmsudo /home/abdo/sample_serv.sh
echo started
end script
When the line /bin/bash /home/abdo/.rvm/bin/rvmsudo /home/abdo/sample_serv.sh is reached, I get
/home/abdo/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in
`require': cannot load such file -- sinatra (LoadError)
I was able to get the same ruby -v as that of my user but it looks like the GEM_PATH (even if I set it inside the upstart config file), is not helping.
Basically, if I can understand how (and where -- gem env is not helping since gem is not a command when I do sudo) rubygems looks for a file being required, I should be able to move forward.
When you run under
sudoyou run in a different environment, wheregemis not installed, the$PATHis different, so things may not run smoothly.You may want to try this:
Edit
If you don't want to change the defaults, you can try to synchronize the values of the environment values stated above (
rvm_bin_path GEM_HOME IRBRC MY_RUBY_HOME rvm_path rvm_prefix rvm_version GEM_PATH rvmsudo_secure_path RUBY_VERSION rvm_ruby_string rvm_delete_flag) to yourrootuser.If that doesn't work, you can try installing
rvmasroot, and using that environment (instead of/home/abdo/.rvm/bin/rvm) to run your code.