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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the assigned issues summary e-mail


Ideal work organization is to have your employees or team members come to work early in the morning, open Redmine or the e-mail client, a list of tasks created for them for the current day awaits them, and they start to work, task by task, promptly updating Redmine, either directly or through third-party applications. Luckily, Redmine can get you closer to this scenario by providing issues summary e-mails.

Getting ready

You need server administrator access with access to cron jobs or scheduled tasks.

You need a test user in Redmine for which you can read its e-mail, and tasks assigned for that user due within next 5 days.

How to do it…

First, we are going to test the rake task for a reminder script:

  1. Open the console and navigate to Redmine root.

  2. Test the following command by replacing the USER_ID with the real ID of your test user number (the default account admin is usually number 1):

    rake redmine:send_reminders days=7 users="USER_ID" RAILS_ENV="production...