Announcement

Hi There,

This group has been quiet for some time. The best place to read updates is the Rules 8.x Roadmap issue
https://www.drupal.org/node/2245015

There we announce and post updates about our regular initiative meetings.

Best,
Josef

As you might know, we have started an initiative to collect funds for porting the Rules module to Drupal 8: #d8rules. We are in the middle of our crowd funding campaign on Drupalfund and development has already started. In this post, I'll share an update on the development status of Rules 8.x and talk about what's next for the #d8rules initiative.

Status update

At Drupal Dev Days Szeged fago, klausi, xano & me sat together to plan necessary steps for porting Rules to Drupal 8. The architectural decisions have been laid out by fago and we defined a Rules 8.x roadmap that splits up this major effort into 3 milestones.

Alltogether the effort is calculated to take 1048 hours of development time to fix outstanding tasks for Drupal 8, port all the subsystems of the Rules core engine, the Rules APIs and the User Interface as well as the scheduling functionality.

So far, 1/3 of our first milestone has been funded thanks to our great sponsors and individual supporters on Drupalfund.

Hi,

We use rules extensively, and once in a while need to find a rule or component that triggered an email (or similar). Here are some more words and a link to the module in github: http://bluetegu.net/node/11

Feedback appreciated.
Best,
Ron

As introduced recently we've started working on a new Rules UI as part of the fluxkraft project.

So after quite some planning and discussion we came up with some wireframes that should show how we imagine the new Rules UI to work. The wireframes are not very detailed - expect the details to change - but still the wireframes should show the overall idea.

So let's have a look at them and discuss :-)

Browse rules screen

Book Title: Drupal Rules how-to
Website: Packt Publishing
Author: Robert Varkonyi
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Reviewer: Veturi JV Subramanyeswari, Liran Tal

In short

The book Drupal Rules how-to is a good way to getting started in using the Rules module. It contains a number of step-by-step instructions on how to set up various Rules configuration, and short explanations on how the configuration works. The book is really a how-to: If your ambitions is to understand how the Rules module works, rather than just using it, you'll have to do quite a bit of puzzling yourself. It should also be mentioned that the book contains some inacurracies, and there are even some bad practice being promoted. The most impressive feature of the book is its span: It will really show you Rules functionality from beginner to expert level.

Ladies and gentlemen,

it is my pleasure to announce that Bot Rules 7.x-1.0-alpha1 has been released today. It provides basic events, conditions and actions to integrate an IRC bot (using Bot module) with Rules.

What can it be used for? For example, to send new content/comments notifications to IRC, to retrieve data from your site ('Bot, how many new nodes this week?') and more, limited only by your imagination and skill.

A few days ago I started a new project on drupal.org: Rules Bonus Pack!
As has previously been discussed, it is a set of modules with 'sandbox' functionality for Rules, that can be used, tested, improved – and also serve as a greenhouse for some features to go into the main Rules project.

I have already updated the project several times, and I expect to add more things every now and then. It contains a lot of things I have been wanting to do with Rules, and is now made much easier. Some examples:

I'm currently working hard on the drupal 7 compatible 2.x version of Rules. So what's new?

• The whole API has been revised, so it's more modular, extensible and easier to use. So now all rule elements (conditions, actions, ORs, ANDs, LOOPs) are reusable components on its own, e.g. a module not interested in Rules could easily reuse just the conditions.
• New rule elements may be contributed by modules. Rules comes now with support for loops (and data lists) too.