Open gnome terminal programmatically and execute commands after bashrc was executed

Question

I try to build a little script to start my development environment. For that task I try to open a gnome terminal with several tabs where automatically the rails server and a

Answer 1

I'm assuming the error arises because PATH is not set at the time gnome-terminal tries to run rails.

Why not use the full path to the rails server, or create a script that sets the PATH variable?