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Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
Book Image

Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By: ANDRIY LESYUK

Overview of this book

Redmine is not only one of the popular open source project management applications but also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. This book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage, monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine. You will get familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting. Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility. By the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex projects using Redmine.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Quick Syntax Reference
Index

Chapter 10. Plugins and Themes

I have always liked playing with plugins—not only as a user but also as a developer. I was amazed by the power that plugin APIs of some applications (for example, Apache HTTP server) give to let a developer extend their functionality. But when I started to learn the Redmine plugin API, I was amazed even more. Honestly, I can't say that I love Ruby on Rails or am a fan of it, but Redmine's plugin API (which is based on Ruby and Rails) is definitely the thing! Unlike other plugin APIs that I've seen before, it's not a regular plugin API. Thus, it embraces the Redmine API and the Rails API. And, it is based on Ruby, which is a very powerful metaprogramming language and provides unsurpassed means for patching code at runtime. As a result, this makes the Redmine plugin API nearly limitless—in other words, you can do almost anything with it.

While Redmine is quite featureful without plugins, you will most likely encounter a couple of them that you will want to make...