Trouble with migrate over Switchtower

Rails
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From my blog:
http://clickablebliss.com/blog/2006/02/01/trouble_with_migrate_over_switchto
wer/

Lately though I¹ve run into an issue
trying to run migrations over Switchtower.

So I¹ll prepare a migration and commit it to the repository. I¹ll then do a
deploy to get the latest version up on the production server. Next, I¹ll run
the following to tell the production server to run a migration:

rake remote_exec ACTION=migrate

It won’t work though, in the errors I get:

bash: line 1: rake: command not found.

I have no idea why this can¹t find the rake command. If I ssh into the
production machine and manually run that command:

cd /webserver/cbwebsite/current && rake RAILS_ENV=production migrate

, it works fine. I previously
set up my paths in both .bashrc and .bash_login. During some troubleshooting I
even added a ~/.ssh/environment file and added the PATH there ? nothing seems
to fix this.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help.

~ Mike

Work: http://ClickableBliss.com
Play: http://MikeZornek.com

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Where is rake located on your target machine? Note that .bashrc
and .bash_login are not read by the SSH process, and there have
been reports of ~/.ssh/environment not working, either, for some people.

However, you can set the :rake variable in your deploy.rb to specify
the full path to the rake executable on the remote host(s):

set :rake, “/opt/local/bin/rake”

  • Jamis
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On 2/1/06 9:05 AM, “Jamis B.” [email protected] wrote:

Where is rake located on your target machine? Note that .bashrc
and .bash_login are not read by the SSH process, and there have
been reports of ~/.ssh/environment not working, either, for some people.

However, you can set the :rake variable in your deploy.rb to specify
the full path to the rake executable on the remote host(s):

set :rake, “/opt/local/bin/rake”

  • Jamis

Thanks. I didn’t know I could set that. Now that I have it works as
expected. Thanks.

~ Mike

Work: http://ClickableBliss.com
Play: http://MikeZornek.com