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 needed to set an environment variable for a specific task to work. The "run" command allows you to pass options which include :env:

run "cmd", :env => { 'name' => 'value' }

In my case, I wanted to add the environment variable to a task that I didn't write, so I used default_run_options which is used by all invocations of run. I added this to the top of my Capfile:

default_run_options[:env] = { 'name' => 'value' }