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Redmine Plugin Extension and Development

By : Alex Bevilacqua
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Redmine Plugin Extension and Development

By: Alex Bevilacqua

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Redmine Plugin Extension and Development
Alex Bevilacqua
Mar, 2014 | 114 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Redmine Plugin Extension and Development
Redmine Plugin Extension and Development
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Redmine Plugins
Introduction to Redmine Plugins
An introduction to our sample plugin
Generating a new plugin
Diving into the initialization file
Summary
2
Extending Redmine Using Hooks
Extending Redmine Using Hooks
Understanding hooks
View hooks
Controller hooks
Model hooks
Helper hooks
A sample view hook implementation
Summary
3
Permissions and Security
Permissions and Security
Summarizing Redmine's permission system
Declaring custom permissions
Ensuring access restrictions in models, views, and controllers
Understanding custom content access control
Summary
4
Attaching Files to Models
Attaching Files to Models
Model preparation
Enabling attachments in our views
Controller modifications to accommodate attachments
Listing and managing attachments
Managing attachment permissions
Summary
5
Making Models Searchable
Making Models Searchable
Registering our plugin
Preparing our models to be searched
Configuring search options
Filtering search results using custom permissions
Including article content in the search
Summary
6
Interacting with the Activity Stream
Interacting with the Activity Stream
Overview of the activity stream
Preparing our model
Registering our model
Configuring an activity provider
Customizing activity entries
Summary
7
Managing Plugin Settings
Managing Plugin Settings
An overview of Redmine's global plugin settings
Enabling settings management
Configuration management
Exposing plugin methods to the settings partial
Accessing our settings
Summary
8
Testing Your Plugin
Testing Your Plugin
Testing infrastructure layout
Basics of test fixtures
Running tests
Writing functional tests
Writing integration tests
Writing unit tests
Preparing a test database
Continuous integration with Travis
Summary
Releasing Your Plugin
Releasing Your Plugin
Managing your plugin's source code
Starting a blog
Publishing your plugin on redmine.org
Announcing your plugin on redmine.org
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Shamasis Bhattacharya has been a part of FusionCharts since 2008. As a JavaScript architect, he heads the JavaScript development team and spends most of his time analyzing, modeling, and coding the FusionCharts JavaScript charting library with attention to smart software design, continuous delivery, and innovative data visualization countenances.

He writes on his blog http://www.shamasis.net/, contributes to the community on GitHub at http://github.com/shamasis, and spends the rest of his time with his wife, Madhumita. He has also written the book FusionCharts Beginner's Guide: The Official Guide for FusionCharts Suite, Packt Publishing.

Without my wife, Madhumita, tolerating my eccentricities, nothing would have been possible!

Petr Pospíšil is a very skilled programmer with more than 14 years of experience in commercial programming business. He has worked in banking, loan companies, and international companies with more than 7,000 employees worldwide. His experience in these companies was based on Microsoft technologies such as .NET and SQL servers.

For the last four years, Petr has been totally focused on developing Easy Redmine, working as the head of the department. Petr believes Easy Redmine to be the best project management tool thanks to its adaptability and an awesome team that contributes to the development of Easy Redmine. He has smoothly shifted from Microsoft technologies to Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Redmine.

Petr coaches the development team, takes care of the quality of the Redmine core, and develops various useful plugins, not to mention his passion for rapidly increasing sales. He also likes cooking and eating good meals and trekking in the mountains with his cheerful fianceé.

Kevin Vicrey is a Web Development Engineer at Schneider Electric, in Montreal. He has over eight years of experience in front end and back end programming, using Redmine as the main project management tool. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science. He worked at IBM (Montpellier, France) and Schneider Electric (Boston, USA) as Lead Web Developer for five years. He has published many articles on the Internet about web technologies (http://vickev.com).

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