God using sudo fails to find the environment parameter SECRET_KEY_BASE in the .bash_profile file

Question

I added those rows to /home/web/.bash_profile. The web is the user of Rails app.

SECRET_KEY_BASE=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
export SECRET_KEY_BASE

I added this row into /etc/sudoers.

Defaults env_keep += "SECRET_KEY_BASE"

This command returns expected result.

sudo ruby -e 'puts ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"]'

If I run Unicorn without God, it can find SECRET_KEY_BASE from environment, and performs normally.

bundle exec unicorn_rails -c config/unicorn.rb -E production -D

Running Unicorn using sudo without God performs normally, too.

sudo bundle exec unicorn_rails -c config/unicorn.rb -E production -D

But when I run Unicorn with God using sudo, it failed to find SECRET_KEY_BASE and becomes error.

sudo god start my_app

The start command in the my_app.god is this.

God.watch do |w|
  w.start = "cd #{rails_root} && bundle exec unicorn_rails -c config/unicorn.rb -E #{rails_env} -D"
  w.uid = 'web'
  w.gid = 'web'
...
end

It seems that the problem exists around God rather than .bash_profile and Unicorn. Besides what should I try?

Answer 1

I added this line into the my_app.god

ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"] = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

I know that this isn't a cool solution, but it works. And SECRET_KEY_BASE isn't included in a Git repository as source code.