Control Redmine from the command line

Posted Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 by Dave | 4 comments

I’ve knocked up a ruby script for creating Redmine¹ issues from the command line². Here’s how you might use it:

red -r bug -s "Search results not sorted by relevance" -t google -a "Some poor soul" -i high -c search -f .red

This would automatically log the bug on the ‘Google’ project tracker, mark it as high priority, and assign it to some poor soul. Defaults are loaded from a YAML file called ‘.red’.

That’s all there is to it. More help is available on the Github page: http://github.com/textgoeshere/redcmd.

[1] Redmine is an excellent open-source Rails bug-tracker and project management system. [2] The command line is where dragons live.

4 Comments

Simon Barber Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 1717
On ubuntu this fails with:

~/redcmd$ ruby red.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — trollop (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’
from red.rb:48

I have installed the ruby-all package.
Chris Says:
November 19th, 2009 at 2121
Sorry to ask,

But how do you install it?
I currently have the bitnami redmine stack running on ubuntu and have no idea how I should install it. I am really green about ruby, any links or help would be appreciated…

Thanks.
Chris
Károly Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 1212
Hi !
Can I use it to create plugins ?
My main problem is can’t generate plugins from command line, the ruby die and doesn’t execute the command . . . can your script help my problem ?
Dave Says:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1919
@simon that’s telling you that you need to install the trollop gem. gem install trollop normally does the trick but I recommend understanding ruby and rubygems before you go ahead.

@chris save it somewhere, ensure red.rb has permissions to be executable, add the folder to your path PATH, run it from a command line in your RoR project root. If you google those phrases, you’ll get tons of help. It really is worth learning about this stuff (not just for my tiny rubbish script obviously).

@Károly Szia? Hogy vagy? No it can’t and no it’s probably no the problem, sorry.

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