Composer weirdness
My daemonise builds were failing with Could not find composer I have phpci in /usr/local/phpcu like so
bash-4.3$ ls -l /usr/local/phpci
total 3656
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdearing 0 60 Mar 16 11:43 composer -> /usr/local/phpci/composer.phar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jdearing 0 1569240 Feb 27 23:47 composer.phar
drwxr-sr-x 8 jdearing 0 24576 Mar 16 11:52 phpci
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 6 Mar 16 14:22 phpci.daemonise.pid
bash-4.3$ ls -l /usr/local/phpci/phpci
total 872
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 699 Feb 27 23:51 Dockerfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 1296 Feb 27 23:51 LICENSE.md
drwxr-sr-x 14 jdearing 0 24576 Feb 28 22:17 PHPCI
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 1929 Feb 27 23:51 README.md
drwxr-sr-x 4 jdearing 0 8192 Feb 27 23:51 Tests
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 2486 Feb 27 23:51 bootstrap.php
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdearing 0 60 Mar 16 11:52 composer -> /usr/local/phpci/composer.phar
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 2292 Feb 27 23:51 composer.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 72402 Feb 27 23:51 composer.lock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jdearing 0 1219 Feb 27 23:51 console
drwxr-sr-x 2 jdearing 0 8192 Feb 29 16:25 daemon
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jdearing 0 610 Feb 27 23:51 daemonise
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 174 Mar 16 14:22 daemonise.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 73342 Mar 16 14:14 errors.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 15909 Feb 28 23:57 everything-2016-02-28
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 1310 Feb 29 16:23 everything-2016-02-29
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 487 Feb 28 23:26 loggerconfig.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 488 Feb 27 23:51 loggerconfig.php.example
-rw------- 1 jdearing 0 544 Mar 16 14:06 nohup.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 718 Feb 27 23:51 phinx.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 902 Feb 27 23:51 phpci.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 1305 Feb 27 23:51 phpunit.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 746 Feb 27 23:51 pluginconfig.php.example
drwxr-sr-x 3 jdearing 0 8192 Mar 7 16:54 public
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdearing 0 861 Feb 27 23:51 vars.php
drwxr-sr-x 22 jdearing 0 24576 Feb 28 00:01 vendor
Even with /usr/local/phpci in my path I needed the composer symlink in /usr/local/phpci/phpci I am starting daemonise with this shell script:
#!/usr/bin/bash
cd /usr/local/phpci/phpci
PATH=/usr/local/phpci:$PATH
nohup php ./daemonise phpci:daemonise >/dev/null 2>&1 & echo $! > /usr/local/phpci/phpci/phpci.daemonise.pid
What version are you running? The 1.7.0 (I believe) stops using executables on the filesystem (/usr/local/phpci/composer) and instead uses them relative to the build (they must be in the root of your project folder)
Why that is really silly ? Why do i need to have composer inside of my project/
Uh that isn't what it does, it looks for the tools in the projects vendor/bin folder or in the global $PATH, it just doesn't look for them in PHPCI's vendor/bin folder anymore
https://github.com/Block8/PHPCI/blob/master/PHPCI/Helper/BaseCommandExecutor.php#L150-L187
Yeah I just debuged it on my server and still getting errors, it looks like it's not looking for $PATH anymore..
xception: Could not find composer/composer.phar {"exception":"[object] (Exception(code: 0): Could not find composer/composer.phar at /home/phpci/app/PHPCI/Helper/BaseCommandExecutor.php:187)","buildID":"3918"} []
https://github.com/Block8/PHPCI/blob/master/PHPCI/Helper/UnixCommandExecutor.php but that is what it does.
What do you get if you run $ which composer or $ which composer.phar as the user you have the queue worker running as?
phpci@logs:~$ id
uid=1004(phpci) gid=1007(phpci) groups=1007(phpci),33(www-data)
phpci@logs:~$ which composer
/usr/local/bin/composer
phpci@logs:~$
@REBELinBLUE anything? is it just me?

Are you absolutely sure you have the worker running as the user phpci? Can you try creating a symlink from /usr/local/bin/composer to /usr/bin/composer
symlink fixed it! strange. even that which still return same ..
Hmm, odd