run Grunt.js with Jenkins

Question

I've set up a Gruntfile with mocha testing and JSlint. This works fine if i just run grunt form the terminal. I want to run grunt from Jenkins! I set up a new job -> and made built to a shell script and included: ``` /usr/local/bin/grunt ``` Once I run the job the terminal output of Jenkins says: ``` [workspace] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson8550584576040162032.sh + /usr/local/bin/grunt /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure Finished: FAILURE ``` it seems it cant fine node binary!?! but node is installed and runs fine in the terminal! All my binaries (mocha, grunt, node) are in /usr/local/bin/ Does anyone know what the issue is? Or maybe someone has a link to set up grunt.js with jenkins? Somebody got something? Thx

Accepted Answer

This is happening because Jenkins will be running as a different user which probably doesn't have `/usr/local/bin` in its `$PATH`.

In your shell script make sure `/usr/local/bin` is being added to your `$PATH`

```
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
# This will also mean you can call 'grunt' rather than '/usr/local/bin/grunt'
grunt
```

This has the added benefit of calling any programs you've installed in `/usr/local/bin` over anything in `/usr/bin`. If you don't want this behavior, simply append instead of prepend:

```
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
# This will also mean you can call 'grunt' rather than '/usr/local/bin/grunt'
grunt
```

run Grunt.js with Jenkins

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