command line

Hi Drupallers,

I thought this worth sharing here, given the number of BDUG members who have expressed an interest in tools like drush and git, but need to increase their comfort level with working on the command line to manage a Drupal site.

Drupalize.me has a whole series of Command Line Basics videos that are FREE. Check it out:
http://drupalize.me/guides/developer-deployment-tools

~ Jennifer

I can't imagine administering drupal without drush. I've set up some aliases in my bash profile. I've become so dependent on these, that I synchronize my alias.sh file through bitbucket. For example, the function drupre will put the site in offline mode, run cron, clear cache, and then put the site back in online mode. The other is drubackup which will save the file structure and database dump to a date based file structure.

Does anyone have any other alias commands to speed up work flow?

drupal and drush

Last night while I was demoing, someone mentioned the colors I had on the command line and how it also denoted which GIT branch I was in. You can thanks James Sansbury (q0rban) for the code.

My instructions are biased towards MAC users. Sorry.

You need Git already installed for this to work.

In your terminal... //denotes my comments

//Find where your bash file is
ls ~/.bash_profile

//This returns "/Users/miche/.bash_profile" for me
//change directory (cd) to that path
cd /Users/miche

//Make sure you are there by "print working directory"
pwd

So you've played around with some Drupal and are ready to put a site online. How should you host it? What do you need to know to get it set up? How will you keep it up to date and safely backed up?

This session will cover the basics of local development environments, domain names, hosting, the command line, MYSQL dumps and uploads, cron, Drush, backing up, and revision control. After this session you should have an idea of what it takes to get your site live...and keep it from being dead!

We are trying to integrate Patterns execution in our change management system based on Liquibase. It seems like the Patterns module only supports execution in GUI mode. Is there any way to execute them from command line or any API we can use to create a Drush extension?

Does the Configuration Framework try to cover these use cases? If so, what's its current development status and where should we start looking for more information?

Thanks a lot!

Esteban

This was posted in Facebook by the Austin Drupal Meetup group:

Drupal Meetup with Michael Godeck
Host:
Austin Drupal Meetup
Type:
Meetings - Club/Group Meeting
Network:
Global
Date:
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Time:
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:
CMA Building Room 3.112, Guadalupe & Dean Keeton, Austin, TX
Description
Drupal Database Management, Drush, & Command Line Scripting with Michael Godeck!

I will be attending Drupalcon in Washington DC in March 2009, and will be doing a presentation on Aegir, on 5 march at 4:15 PM.

The presentation will cover some of the Aegir design basics, and also go into some of the cool new developments we have in store for our 0.2 release.

If you are at all interested in seeing what Aegir is capable of, or want to gain an insight into where we are going, please attend.

Read the complete presentation summary.