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 tried unsuccessfully to use @brian-deterling's technique, which is pretty commonly used by others who have discussed this... Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but meanwhile I found the dotenv-rails gem, and it worked very nicely for loading up values out of a .env file in my project root.

The instructions on their Github repo are pretty straight-forward. I added the Dotenv.load to my config/application.rb