Puma Upstart not loading ENV variables - ruby-on-rails

Question

I've deployed an app in production in an Ubuntu Server VM. It uses Puma, so I've followed this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-rails-app-with-puma-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04
to configure it there (it is currently working properly on heroku, we are looking to migrate it to this new server).
This is my /etc/init/puma-manager.conf
# /etc/init/puma-manager.conf - manage a set of Pumas
description "Manages the set of puma processes"
# This starts upon bootup and stops on shutdown
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]
# Set this to the number of Puma processes you want
# to run on this machine
env PUMA_CONF="/etc/puma.conf"
pre-start script
for i in `cat $PUMA_CONF`; do
app=`echo $i | cut -d , -f 1`
logger -t "puma-manager" "Starting $app"
start puma app=$app
done
end script
And my /etc/init/puma.conf
description "Puma Background Worker"
# no "start on", we don't want to automatically start
stop on (stopping puma-manager or runlevel [06])
# change apps to match your deployment user if you want to use this as a less privileged user (recommended!)
setuid user
setgid user
respawn
respawn limit 3 30
instance ${app}
script
# source ENV variables manually as Upstart doesn't, eg:
. /etc/server-vars
exec /bin/bash <<'EOT'
# set HOME to the setuid user's home, there doesn't seem to be a better, portable way
export HOME="$(eval echo ~$(id -un))"
if [ -d "/usr/local/rbenv/bin" ]; then
export PATH="/usr/local/rbenv/bin:/usr/local/rbenv/shims:$PATH"
elif [ -d "$HOME/.rbenv/bin" ]; then
export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$HOME/.rbenv/shims:$PATH"
elif [ -f /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh ]; then
source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh
elif [ -f /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm ]; then
source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh
elif [ -f "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]; then
source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
elif [ -f /usr/local/share/chruby/chruby.sh ]; then
source /usr/local/share/chruby/chruby.sh
if [ -f /usr/local/share/chruby/auto.sh ]; then
source /usr/local/share/chruby/auto.sh
fi
# if you aren't using auto, set your version here
# chruby 2.0.0
fi
cd $app
logger -t puma "Starting server: $app"
exec bundle exec puma -C config/puma.rb
EOT
end script
It works properly BUT it is not setting the ENV variables I specify in:
/etc/server-vars
I don't want to put all ENV vars directly into this script because they are many, and it limits the usability of the script.

Answer 1

The solution for me was to use "set -a" before sourcing the environment file. Here's the documentation describing what set -a does: The Set Builtin
Try 'set -a' before sourcing your environment file as you can see in the following example:
# /etc/init/puma.conf - Puma config
# This example config should work with Ubuntu 12.04+. It
# allows you to manage multiple Puma instances with
# Upstart, Ubuntu's native service management tool.
#
# See puma-manager.conf for how to manage all Puma instances at once.
#
# Save this config as /etc/init/puma.conf then manage puma with:
# sudo start puma app=PATH_TO_APP
# sudo stop puma app=PATH_TO_APP
# sudo status puma app=PATH_TO_APP
#
# or use the service command:
# sudo service puma {start,stop,restart,status}
#
description "Puma Background Worker"
# no "start on", we don't want to automatically start
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]
# change apps to match your deployment user if you want to use this as a less privileged user (recommended!)
setuid deploy
setgid deploy
respawn
respawn limit 3 30
instance ${app}
script
# this script runs in /bin/sh by default
# respawn as bash so we can source in rbenv/rvm
# quoted heredoc to tell /bin/sh not to interpret
# variables
# source ENV variables manually as Upstart doesn't, eg:
#. /etc/environment
exec /bin/bash <<'EOT'
set -a
. /etc/environment
# set HOME to the setuid user's home, there doesn't seem to be a better, portable way
export HOME="$(eval echo ~$(id -un))"
if [ -d "/usr/local/rbenv/bin" ]; then
export PATH="/usr/local/rbenv/bin:/usr/local/rbenv/shims:$PATH"
elif [ -d "$HOME/.rbenv/bin" ]; then
export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$HOME/.rbenv/shims:$PATH"
elif [ -f /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh ]; then
source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh
elif [ -f /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm ]; then
source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh
elif [ -f "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]; then
source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
elif [ -f /usr/local/share/chruby/chruby.sh ]; then
source /usr/local/share/chruby/chruby.sh
if [ -f /usr/local/share/chruby/auto.sh ]; then
source /usr/local/share/chruby/auto.sh
fi
# if you aren't using auto, set your version here
# chruby 2.0.0
fi
logger -t puma "Starting server: $app"
cd $app
exec bundle exec puma -C /home/deploy/brilliant/config/puma.rb
EOT
end script