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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

Text formatting with CKEditor


The default Redmine text formatting options are Markdown and Textile. Some users may have trouble learning syntax for these options. To improve user experience for non-technical users who would expect a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editor instead of the standard Redmine editor, you can replace it with CKEditor through a plugin.

Getting ready

Server administrator access is required.

The requirement for this plugin is ImageMagick, to install it, refer to the Installing optional requirements recipe from Chapter 1, Installing and Running Redmine.

How to do it…

Plugin installation is pretty simple, as follows:

  1. Open the console and navigate to Redmine root:

    git-clone the plugin from following location: git clone https://github.com/a-ono/redmine_ckeditor.git plugins/redmine_ckeditor
    
  2. Run the following:

    bundle install
    
  3. Migrate the database:

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

    rm tmp/restart.txt && touch tmp/restart...