Capistrano: Can I set an environment variable for the whole cap session?

Question

I\'ve got a staging server with both standard Ruby and Ruby Enterprise installed. As standard Ruby refuses to install a critical gem, I need to set $PATH so that ruby/gem/r

Answer 1

I have the exactly same problem, but I think this solution is better:

set :default_environment, { 
  'env_var1' => 'value1',
  'env_var2' => 'value2'
}

This works for me like a charm.