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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

Where to get help and how to get help faster


If searching the web for a solution to your problem fails, the defacto place to ask for help is the Redmine community. It can be reached through the www.redmine.org website, and through the IRC channel #redmine on freenode.

How to do it…

Before you ask your question to the Redmine community, it is good practice to prepare data about your Redmine system because that is most likely the next question people from community are going to ask you once you submit your query. To gain information about your system if your Redmine is running, perform the following tasks:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Information.

  2. Copy the information outlined in red, and paste it with your message:

  3. If your Redmine is not active, or accessible through the web browser, you can still get that information from the console by navigating to your Redmine installation root and typing the following:

    ruby bin/about
    
  4. You will get the same output in the console.

Steps to resolve problems

  1. Make...