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Redmine Cookbook

By : Pavic
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Pavic

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 (12 chapters)
11
Index

Being Agile with Agile Dwarf


This book dealt with Agile, Flexible, and Scrum terminology in several places. Every plugin has its own pros and cons. The Agile Dwarf plugin is definitely worth mentioning, because it drastically improves the manager's user experience by providing several dashboards to help visualize and speed up task management.

Getting ready

Server and Redmine administrator access is required.

How to do it…

Install the plugin just like any other regular plugin:

  1. Open the console and navigate to the Redmine installation root.

  2. Git clone the plugin's code as follows:

    git clone https://github.com/acosonic/agile_dwarf.git plugins/agile_dwarf
    
  3. Migrate the database as follows:

    rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
    
  4. Restart Redmine as follows:

    rm tmp/restart.txt && touch tmp/restart.txt
    
  5. Configure the plugin by navigating to Administration | Plugins | Agile dwarf plugin and click Configure:

  6. Give permissions for a plugin to specific roles by navigating to Administration |...