How can you use a Chef recipe to set an environment variable?
If you need an env var set strictly within the Chef process, you can use ENV[‘foo’] = ‘bar‘ since it’s a ruby process. If you need to set one for an execute provider, Chef exposes an environment hash: execute ‘Bootstrap the database’ do cwd “#{app_dir}/current” command “#{env_cmd} rake db:drop db:create db:schema:load RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env}” environment ‘HOME’ => … Read more