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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

Installing a plugin


The installation procedure may differ for different plugins, but it has some common steps, which we will review in this section. Before installing a plugin, you should always check out its documentation to ensure that you will be doing this properly.

Note

This section is intended for administrators who have access to the filesystem of the server on which Redmine runs. Also, plugin installation may require root access.

Redmine plugins usually come in a directory, which should be copied to the plugins subdirectory of Redmine (that is, for example, into /opt/redmine/redmine-3.2.0/plugins if you have installed Redmine at /opt/redmine/redmine-3.2.0).

Tip

What if the plugin's directory is missing or has an invalid name?

The plugin should contain the init.rb file in its main directory. So, if this file is in the root, it means that the plugin's directory is missing. Also, the init.rb file should contain the following line:

Redmine::Plugin.register :plugin_name do

Here, plugin_name is...