System wide rvm_shell PATH on SmartOS

[davefinster]

When performing a deployment via capistrano using the rvm-capistrano gem, all commands are wrapped up in

rvm_path=/usr/local/rvm /usr/local/rvm/bin/rvm-shell 'default' -c 'stuff to do'

One issue that I've encountered is that any gems that require native extensions and make a call out to 'make' fail to build. This is because the PATH that gets set by the rvm-shell command comes out to be:

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin:/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286@global/bin:/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin:/usr/local/rvm/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

which is missing the /opt/local/gnu/bin directory, which comes through in interactive bash sessions. The monkey patch was simply to add

PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/gnu/bin

to /etc/rvmrc but I'm not sure if that is the best way to handle this.

I'll also add that capistrano is executing the deployment under the same user account that I'm logged in as interactively.

[mpapis]

if PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/gnu/bin is standard SmartOS then RVM can automatically add it.

[davefinster]

Sorry for the late reply - Yes that is the standard location for all GNU based implementations of the build tools.