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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

Introduction


This chapter deals with scripts and plugins, which come with Redmine or are developed by a third party. When it comes to Redmine plugin installation, the procedure is usually the same:

  1. Download, SVN checkout, or git-clone the plugin to the plugins folder. This chapter assumes Git checkout as a default instruction.

    Tip

    When dealing with opensource software and plugins, such as in Redmine's case, if a plugin is not updated for a while (several months or years), but the software that the plugin is made for is updated frequently, the situation that might happen is that a plugin is not working with the most recent version of software it is made for. Due to open source and social nature of its development, it is very likely that somebody else, apart from the original author, has forked the original repository and keeps maintaining it. In such cases, search for a more recent fork of the original plugin through GitHub, or other social coding interfaces.

  2. Run bundle install to collect missing...