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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

Troubleshooting plugin installation


Plugin installations usually go without problems if you follow the general Redmine plugin installation steps or specifically written instructions from the plugin's docs. But sometimes, a plugin won't work with your Redmine installation, or even worse, it breaks your installation. This recipe deals with some common plugin installation problems.

Tip

It is not good practice to test plugins in production environment. Redmine lets you use console value RAILS_ENV=development for test or development purposes. But, it is always recommended to create a full backup of your system prior to plugin installation.

Getting ready

Make sure that the plugin you are installing is compatible with your version of Redmine.

How to do it…

Usual Redmine plugin installation looks like this:

  1. Git clone the plugin source or unzip it to the /plugins directory.

  2. Optionally, run bundle install to pick up additional required gems.

  3. Optionally, migrate the plugin's database with this command:

    rake...