For almost a year now I've been developing Drupal sites using an old desktop PC (running Ubuntu 9.04) as my dev platform. Now I have reason to take my development on the road so I picked up a cheap laptop, configured it to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu 9.10, and managed to get my dev environment for one site setup on it last night.
I've got 6-7 other Drupal sites that I need to setup on it now and am once again pondering if I should load drush and try to get comfy with it. I know what some of you will tell me...'bout time, eh?
I now have a one-page text file consisting of about 25 steps that I go through each time I want to launch a new Drupal site. These steps create a localhost dev environment for me as well as the corresponding production site on some shared host space that I lease.
The big question is... Can I do scripting in drush such that I might easily automate all (or most) of these 25 (or so) steps and eliminate some mind numbing repetition?
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Drush Make
I have yet to give it a try, but I think Drush Make may be able to get you close. http://drupal.org/project/drush_make
Baby Steps
OK, I got drush working and it has saved me a little work thus far. But, how do you add commands/extensions to drush and make them work? In particular, I've downloaded drush_shell and untar'd it...but where does it go and how is it invoked?
Mark