While I was working on puppet-rvm, I noticed that the shell providers of puppet do not run as login shell.
This means:
exec { "echo $PATH"
provider => "shell"
}
will have an empty path, because the .bashrc and others have not been loaded.
So if you install rvm for this user, the command rvm will not available.
A fix MIGHT be:
exec { "source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm ; rvm current"
provider => "shell",
}
what looks ugly. And in this case the PATH is not set, too. So you will source bashrc and others, too.
A solution is, to run bash with the --login parameter. This is my shortcut type: bash_exec.pp.
The new bash_exec should behave exactly like the exec type of puppet, with the difference, that the user's bash is
started with --login parameter.
So:
bash_exec { "echo $PATH":
}
returns a path, which contains RVM.
And:
bash_exec { "rvm current":
}
works as expected.
