executing in login shell & with path

[hankeypancake]

I noticed my aliases and sourced scripts didn't work as expected (most notably nvm). I believe this is because commands is not executed in a login shell, so the .bashrc / .profile etc. is not applied.

I came up with a workaround though, executing with .sudo() and a user works, but then I cant use .with(), because when sudoing I'm ending up at the users home directory.

so then I needed to cd to the correct path before executing anything again, but now we've ended up with

remote.sudo('cd ~/www/mysite && npm install', {user:'myuser'});

for every command that I need to be executed with a login shell.

could this be done in the same manner as .with() ?

i.e.:

remote.login('myuser', function(){
    remote.with('cd ~/www/mysite', function(){
        remote.exec('npm install');
        ...
    });
});

also, i don't really know how you do .with() since we seem to use the same transport, does it get set through the rest of the flight? why not pass a new modified transport in as argument to the function (I might have missed something here).

like so:

remote.with('cd ~/www/mysite', function(withTransport){
     withTransport.exec('dostuff');
});

otherwise, why the need to pass a function?

[pstadler]

This is a problem indeed. I'll try to make with() work as expected in this case.