run Grunt.js with Jenkins

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

To be honest I'm not familiar with Jenkins but I had same issue when I wanted to integrate GruntJS with XCode custom build step or within TeamCity deployment process.

I fixed my problem by adding /usr/local/bin/ to the PATH within my shell script before running grunt or node. Something like:

PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bingrunt

I hope this helps you as well :-)

you can allow setup everything from jenkins :

Install Jenkins Plugins

• Git Plugin - for git
• Git Client Plugin - for git
• Git Parameter Plugin - for git tags
• GitHub API Plugin - for github
• NodeJS Plugin - integration for common javascript tools NodeJS & npm

Git / Ant / Maven / NodeJS Installations

• Goto SERVER/jenkins/configure

• Git -> Git installations -> Add Git -> JGit
• Git plugin -> Global Config user.name Value = "Anthony Mckale", Global Config user.email Value = "anthony.mckale@bskyb.com"

• NodeJS- > NodeJS installations -> Add NodeJS -> Name = "NodeJS 0.11.10", tick "Install automatically", select "Install from nodejs.org", add "grunt-cli" to globally installed packages

TADA

and hopefully git/nodejs and grunt will be available to you