RVM error with deploying Rails app via Capistrano
History:
- Read into Deploying Rails3 app to a Mediatemple DV server.
- Installed RVM on the server, ruby, and essential gems.
- Site works fine if I FTP it up.
- All good.
I then decided to do a proper deployment and setup for GIT/cap deploy as per "Agile Web Development with Rails".
- Attempted deploy with cap, but had errors with gems not available to the production site.
- Read around and realised I should probably go for a system wide RVM install.
- Removed all gems and RVM.
- Installed RVM system wide.
- Error on cap deploy "bash: /home/foo/.rvm/bin/rvm-shell: No such file or directory", which makes sense - there is no .rvm/ in the home directory.
- Thinking something was hanging over from initially installing RVM to use as a user, I removed the user, deleting the home directory, and recreated the user with permissions.
- Same error on cap deploy "bash: /home/foo/.rvm/bin/rvm-shell: No such file or directory"
The situation now is:
For foo, .bashrc contains the last line:
[[ -s '/usr/local/lib/rvm' ]] && source '/usr/local/lib/rvm'
When I issue:
type rvm | head -1
the response is "rvm is a function".
/etc/rvmrc contains
if [[ ! -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]]; then
umask g+w
export rvm_selfcontained=0
export rvm_prefix="/usr/local/"
fi
Running out of ideas here, and hoping for some suggestions.
Answer
Next time try to add this in your capistrano:
set :rvm_type, :system