I have built a node.js app that listens for webhooks. Currently it is used to build a jekyll website.

I have configured it on my server and jekyll build works perfectly when I run it in the root of my jekyll website (which is sending the hooks). When I run the node.js app over ssh in a shell everything works fine as well when a git hook is triggered.

However, when the node.js app is run from an upstart script (shown below) it doesn't seem to find the gems. It keeps asking for dependencies which I am sure I have installed (globally as well as for my user).

Inside the script I have put echo`which jekyll` and this shows that it is indeed pointing to the locally installed jekyll bin: /home/christophe/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/bin/jekyll. But right below that I execute the jekyll command and it fails:

/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:296:in `to_specs': Could not find 'jekyll' (>= 0) among 31 total gem(s) (Gem::LoadError)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:307:in `to_spec'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:47:in `gem'
    from /home/christophe/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/bin/jekyll:22:in `<main>'

How can I execute this bash script to properly execute jekyll?

Upstart

# /etc/init/libservice.conf
# Task to automatically start the library service.

author "Christophe De Troyer"
description "Run the githook for the blog."

# Path of the configuration files
env PROJ="/home/christophe/jekyll-builder"

# Configure to run as `christophe`
setuid christophe
setgid christophe

script
    export PATH=/home/christophe/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/bin:$PATH
    cd $PROJ
    gulp run
end script    

start on startup
#Respawn the process if it crashes
#If it respawns more than 10 times in 5 seconds stop
respawn limit 10 5

Build script

#!/bin/bash                                            

########################                               
# Parameters from Node #                               
########################                               

giturl=$1                                              
reponame=$2                                            
branch=$3                                              
ownermail=$4                                           
reporoot=$5                                            
htmlsink=$6                                            
www=$7                                                 

##########                                             
# Script #                                             
##########                                             

# Check to see if reponame exists. If not, git clone it
if [ ! -d $reporoot ]; then                            
    mkdir -p $reporoot                                 
    git clone $giturl $reporoot                        
fi                                                     

# Checkout and pull branch.                            
cd $reporoot                                           
git checkout $branch                                   
git pull origin $branch                                
cd -                                                   


echo `which jekyll` 
jekyll # fails                                   
# Run jekyll                                           
jekyll build -s $reporoot -d $htmlsink    # fails too

Update:

gem env while logged in as a user:

    RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.0.14
  - RUBY VERSION: 2.0.0 (2014-01-12 patchlevel 384) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /var/lib/gems/2.0.0
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby2.0
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86_64-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /var/lib/gems/2.0.0
     - /home/christophe/.gem/ruby/2.0.0
     - /usr/share/rubygems-integration/2.0.0
     - /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - https://rubygems.org/

gem env from within the script, executed from the node.js app running via upstart gives:

RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.0.14
  - RUBY VERSION: 2.0.0 (2014-01-12 patchlevel 384) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /var/lib/gems/2.0.0
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby2.0
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86_64-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /var/lib/gems/2.0.0
     - /.gem/ruby/2.0.0
     - /usr/share/rubygems-integration/2.0.0
     - /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - https://rubygems.org/

Notice that the GEM_PATHS is missing the home directory prefix in the second entry. I have tried resolving this by putting env GEM_PATH="/home/christophe/.gem/ruby/2.0.0" in the upstart script but that didnt change anything.

In the meanwhile I have solved it by intalling a list of deps manually as root. However, I don't think this is a good approach as the upstart is explicitly running as my user. And secondly, this software needs to run on a server I don't have root permissions on. So I would still like to know a fix.

sudo gem install jekyll
sudo gem install jekyll-gist
sudo gem install jekyll-cite
sudo gem install jekyll-scholar
sudo gem install addressable -v 2.3.5
sudo gem install yajl-ruby -v 1.2.0
sudo gem install pygments.rb
sudo gem install posix-spawn