Question

Having a hard time getting my local setup properly. Trying to run foreman and getting an issue:

 web: bundle exec thin -R config.ru start -p $PORT -e ${RACK_ENV:-development}
 RACK_ENV:"FACEBOOK_APP_ID=275479742529226"
 RACK_ENV:"FACEBOOK_SECRET=xxx"

running “foreman start”

15:21:21 RACK_ENV.1  | process terminated
15:21:21 web.1       | started with pid 23406
15:21:21 system      | sending SIGTERM to all processes
15:21:21 RACK_ENV.1  | started with pid 23407
15:21:21 system      | sending SIGTERM to pid 23406
15:21:21 RACK_ENV.1  | started with pid 23408
 15:21:21 RACK_ENV.1  | /Users/mc/.rvm/gems/ruby-  1.9.2-p290/gems/foreman-          
0.41.0/bin/foreman-runner: line 36: exec: "FACEBOOK_APP_ID=275479742529226": not found

apparently I’m setting my fb keys completely incorrect for the env.. if anyone could help out. I’ve tried setting up a .env file in the root as well, which contain

FACEBOOK_APP_ID=964173273189
FACEBOOK_SECRET=xxx

Removing everything from the procfile (which I believe is incorrect anyways) and running foreman, shouldn’t it pickup the .env file in the root by default? which isn’t proving any luck.

  5:44:20 web.1     | started with pid 23705
  15:44:24 web.1     | missing env vars: please set FACEBOOK_APP_ID and FACEBOOK_SECRET         
  with your app credentials
  15:44:24 web.1     | process terminated
  15:44:24 system    | sending SIGTERM to all processes

Thanks

Answer 1

I don’t think the issue is that foreman isn’t finding .env, it’s that the syntax of your Procfile is incorrect. Every line in the Procfile after the : should executable on the command line.

Create your Procfile with the following contents:

web: bundle exec thin -R config.ru start -p $PORT -e $RACK_ENV

And set your .env file to:

RACK_ENV=development
FACEBOOK_APP_ID=1234
FACEBOOK_SECRET=xyz

Note the RACK_ENV var needs to be explicitly set whereas PORT does not since Foreman automatically sets it.