Tue, 02/23/2010 - 6:00pm
Feb 23 2010
6:00pm @ 215 W 18th St, KCMO
Drupal Meetups are back. We now have a permanent location to meet at 215 W 18th St, KCMO in the Crossroads KC.
twentypixel will provide pizza from Art of Pizza. Bring your own beer.
Post your suggestions for meetup topics in the forum. These might be things you are having trouble with, want to teach, or just share with the group.
It would really help out if you can sign up for this event so we know how many to plan for.
Take a poll about February's Meetup.
Meeting Agenda
Hey guys sorry I couldn't make it to the meetup. I was hoping to get an agenda for what was discussed. In the future you may want to provide an agenda prior to the meeting (if there was one and I missed, sorry) so that everyone would know if it is a good fit for them to attend. thanks
thanks guys!
It was really awesome of you all to host another great event. My appreciation!
Automated Drupal Updates
I would be interested to know if there is an easier way employ drupal updates. It seems that every time Drupal releases a new update, there are tedious steps to follow.
I won't be able to make this month's Drupal Meetup as I'm in Vancouver cheering on Team USA, but I look forward to next month's meetup and those that follow.
drush
Drush only updates modules and your database though, it won't perform the core updates. There are some things I could look into script wise to have the server run some things but at the moment I have no other working solution other than the archaic way of uploading core updates over FTP.
drush dl That will download
drush dl
That will download and unarchive the current version of drupal for you, but yes you still have to run a cp command to update your existing.
I don't have problems with this as I run a dev box and a prod box and never run any of these commands on prod. I also don't use FTP as all my code is managed by subversion. So when I do my updates i use drush, cp everything over, drush update.... and then I do my testing. Commit all my work and then I login to my prod box via ssh and run "svn up" and it will update my code to my latest tested version. Then use the web manager update.php to update any db updates or if you have drush installed on your prod box you can do it that way. I just turn off update module on prod so I never mess with drush in that environment. Only in dev.
That is very interesting, if
That is very interesting, if it will download the update I could feasibly write a shell script that does a diff, and just adds in the modified files automatically. Of course, if a core update breaks everything you better maintain a good back up policy.
Drush
A link may help eh? Sorry bout that.
http://drupal.org/project/drush
Use Drush.
Use Drush.
I am very interested in
I am very interested in taking a completed drupal website and forging it into a mass deploy-able web based product. For example, I create a product for use in Enterprise environments, and I want to be able to package it up and give it to some companies sys or network admin, and have them install and use my product with out being a web developer.
Installation profiles
You might want to check out installation profiles. These are customized drupal "distributions" that enable and configure a set of modules that work together for a specific kind of site.
http://drupal.org/project/Installation+profiles
Site Synchronization
One thing I'm dealing with is finding a good way to keep my production sites and development sites synchronized.
Subversion is a good tool.
Subversion is a good tool.
Subversion would be a good
Subversion would be a good topic for a meetup discussion. I would love to hear from users who use subversion on a regular basis. I have very little experience with it but it seems like the way to go.