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Asked: 2026-05-20T04:37:03+00:00

I have a custom Apache initializers in order to have my Homebrew binaries accessible:

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I have a custom Apache initializers in order to have my Homebrew binaries accessible:

SetEnv PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH

However, my Rails (3.0.4) applications cannot find any binaries unless full paths are given. For example:

begin    
   `convert`
   raise Errno::ENOENT if $?.exitstatus == 127
 rescue Errno::ENOENT
   logger.info "command 'convert' not found: ensure Image Magick is installed"
 end

Results in an exception being raised each time (even though the convert binary exists under ‘/usr/local/bin/convert’). Any ideas on how to fix this so my Rails applications know about the path? Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure if I did a system update or what happened exactly, but I had both Brew and Port configured on my system. I had two initializer files:

    # ./other/port.conf
SetEnv PATH /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

# ./other/brew.conf
SetEnv PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH

    The soution was to remove the unused port.conf. Not sure why this was causing issues in Apache (and I seem to remember it working in the past). However, multiple calls to SetEnv seem to overwrite eachother.

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