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Rapid Web Development with Drupal Special

WeaponsHUDO - Technical Leader at GeekPolishudo@geekpolis.com

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About Me

Geekpolis Technical Leader

Built themeski.com premium Drupal theme system.

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Outline

Discuss about problems when develop web with Drupal.

Discover some special tools Resources Demo. Q&A

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Dev

Test

Production

Dev 1

Dev 2

Dev 3

Problems ?

Sharing database dump

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Dev

Test

Production

ConflictSpeed

Reused

How to fix that ?

Sharing database dump

Dev 1

Dev 2

Dev 3

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SolutionsFeatures

Make File

Drush

GIT

High Speed

High Quality

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Features

Sharing database dumpsNot ideal for a distributed teamMake it difficult to push settings to production.Content and settings is mixed in one db dump.Easy lose control.

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Features

Put everything in codeCode can be versioned.Conflicts can be solved.Content and settings are separated.Easy to push changes to production.

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Features

Storing configuration in code

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Make file

Core

Modules

Themes

Libraries

Profile

Features

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Drush Drush is a command line shell and scripting interface

for Drupal. Drush is not a module. Commons command:

drush pm-download cck viewsdrush pm-enable cck views drush pm-disable cck viewsdrush pm-uninstall cck viewsdrush statusdrush pm-updatedrush cache-clear (Clear all Cache)

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GIT Git is a free and open source distributed

version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency

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Demo time!

Discover commons Drush commands. Export features Generate make file Build profile Manage version with Git. Work flow in small team work.

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Resources Drush

http://drush.ws/ Make file

http://drupal.org/node/1432374 http://drushmake.me/

Features http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode43 http://2012.badcamp.net/sites/default/files/slides/Features

%20BADcamp_0.pdf WorkFlow

http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/jul/09/development-staging-production-workflow-problem-drupal/Features

Git http://git-scm.com/