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Drush5

Einige Screencasts von CivicActions zeigen schon mal was mit Drush 5 möglich ist. Sehr nett.

drush -rs

A new command in Drush 5 is the runserver command (alias “rs”), which is a built in web server for development. All you need is the php-cgi binary and you can bring up a server (and logged in web-browser, if you like!) for a specified site in seconds - no need to have Apache configured for the site, or even running.

drush -qd

All you need is php-cgi and the PDO sqlite driver - you don’t need MySQL or Apache running at all. Running the command will download and install Drupal (or your choice of distribution) as well as any contrib projects you like, start the built in php webserver and open your default browser with you already logged in as user 1.

Drupal: Managing Features

Scott Hadfield erklärt wie man Features managed und woraus man achten muss.

I can’t stress enough the importance of keeping your site in sync with your features. If you’re lazy and your features are perpetually listed as overridden you’re going to be in for a world of hurt. This is particularly true when using a dev -> stage -> prod workflow with features or working with multiple site builders at one time.

NEVER have two different developers working on the same features components at the same time.

Drupal 7 Upgrade Automation

Die Group 42 zeigt wie sich ein Drupal Upgrade mit Hilfe von drush automatisieren lässt.

What follows is a review of the Drush commands I used via script to upgrade my Group 42 website to Drupal 7. The hand full of shell commands are basic and covered many other places on the net. The full upgrade scripts are at the end of the post.

Drush 4

Moshe Weitzman über die Neuerungen in Drush 4. Unter anderem:

selfupdate. A new command which updates Drush itself when a new release is pending.
site-install. Programmatically install Drupal 6 (new) or Drupal 7 site. Can use any install profile or language.
site-upgrade. Fully automated upgrade script from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. Re-run this command over and over as you tweak your update functions and available modules. Saves a lot of time.
sql-dump gets a new —gzip which compresses your DB backup file.

Und mehr Dokumentation:

In Drush 4, we added 14 topics and examples which are long-form help that’s usually not related to a single command

daily links

• Free JavaScript Game Frameworks To Create A Web-Based Fun
  >As JavaScript-HTML5 development is getting more popular and browsers supporting new features are being utilized by more users everyday, -as expected- many new games are being developed with JavaScript.
  JavaScript-powered games are not only easier-to-develop for web developers but they are also the only cross-platform ones including desktop, web and mobile.
• Installing Drupal 7 with drush
  This tutorial is a two-fer. You will learn how to install Drupal 7 using SSH and get a taste of Drush by seeing it in action. The first step is to install Drush. Then we use it to install Drupal…all using the command line. Look ma, no GUI!
• A List Apart: Articles: Rapid Prototyping with Sinatra
  This article introduces Sinatra, a so-called “micro” web framework that helps you create real (albeit simple) web apps extremely fast, allowing you to prototype flows and behaviors that you may want to integrate into a final product. Sinatra is written in Ruby, but for our purposes we’ll use it as the “glue” between our HTML/CSS and the domain-specific Sinatra functions, so you won’t have to know much more than a few simple methods to get to “Hello world.” In this article, our example will be an extremely simple Twitter app that accepts two usernames and tells you if one user is following the other.
• buzz.typo3.org: TYPO3 4.5 LTS: Prepared queries are the way to go!
  Prepared queries are now part of the TYPO3 database API. The API is mostly based on PDO’s method naming and currently supports SELECT queries. Read on to learn how to take advantage of this enhanced API for your own extensions.