I use Rake to automate a lot of tasks, in my plugins and on my development systems. A good technique to learn is to organize and group your tasks using Rake namespaces. Example: desc "Download missing plugins from Github" task :plugins do # .. end namespace :plugins do desc "Fetch latest revisions" task :fetch [...]
What I’m excited about with ChiliProject 3.0.0
On February 6th ChiliProject 3.0.0 was released. This marks the third major release for ChiliProject and the stabilization of the past 6 months of development. The 3.0 series is my favorite release so far. It finally brings in some features that I’ve been wanting to use for at least 4 years. The full release details [...]
Redmine Theme – Basic Themes – Images and JavaScript
When I last wrote about Redmine themes I showed how to customize the basic styles by overriding the CSS. Basic themes also support a few other features in addition to CSS. Images Most themes will use images as part of the design. This is pretty easy to do because the entire theme is located in [...]
Can I have a single issue display in two or more projects in Redmine?
Today’s post is from a reader: Can I have a single issue display in two or more projects? Answer: It depends. You can have them displayed if the projects are related (like a parent and child) but it isn’t very clear how to enable this. Display subprojects issues on main projects by default Even though [...]
Changes to my Open Source Projects
One of the changes I’m making this year is to focus more on the parts of my life that matter the most to me and to ignore the parts that don’t matter as much. One of the areas of a lot of stress for me has been my obligation to my open source plugins for [...]
Redmine Theme – Basic Themes
One of the first things people do to customize their Redmine or ChiliProject is to install a theme. Redmine has supported custom themes since version 0.6.0 (October 2007). In my opinion a custom Redmine theme can really make your site stand out and also make Redmine much more usable than the default theme. But first, [...]
Free Redmine Issue Tracking Webinar – December 1st
I’ve been working with Redmine and ChiliProject for a few years now, both for my own business and also as a consultant for my clients’ businesses. All of this exposure has let me see how different groups use Redmine and also where they misuse Redmine (sometimes unknowingly). The biggest thing I’ve learned from all of [...]
