bundle not found via ssh

Question

If I ssh into my VPS as the deployment user and run bundle -v I get Bundler version 1.1.5 as expected.

If I run ssh [email protected] bundle -v, then I see bash: bundle: command not found

Why isn't bundle being shown running commands via ssh?

More Info

$ cat ~/.bashrc

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples

if [ -d "${RBENV_ROOT}" ]; then
  export PATH="${RBENV_ROOT}/bin:${PATH}"
  eval "$(rbenv init -)"
fi

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

Answer 1

When you run:

ssh [email protected]

You get a login shell on the remote host, which means that your shell will run (...for bash...) .bash_profile or .profile or equivalent AS WELL AS your per-shell initialization file.

When you run:

ssh [email protected] some_command

This does not start a login shell, so it only runs the per-shell initialization file (e.g., .bashrc).

The problem you've described typically means that you need something in your .profile file (typically an environment variable setting) for everything to work.