Redmine Plugin Extension and Development

Gain access to powerful and useful features by hooking into Redmine's underlying infrastructure
Real-world examples that will help you in building cross-platform applications using Redmine
Full of illustrations, tips, and tricks to facilitate the development of plugins and extensions

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for those who want to build custom functionality into the Redmine project management platform. If you're already comfortable with Ruby, Rails, and Redmine, but you aren't quite sure what to do next, this book will walk you through the basics of getting a plugin written and integrated into various key areas of Redmine.

What You Will Learn

Understand the basic plugin setup from scratch
Exercise core Redmine enhancement through the use of model/view/controller/helper hooks
Apply and control the ability to attach files to custom models
Discover how to lock down content area access by leveraging the existing security infrastructure
Learn how to make model fields searchable within Redmine's existing search subsystem
Enable custom updates to be mixed into Redmine's project and system activity streams

In Detail

Redmine is a flexible project management web application that is cross-platform and cross-database. Redmine handles multiple projects and provides integrated project management features, issue tracking, and support for various version control systems.

This book provides an overview of the tools available to potential plugin authors who want to extend and enhance a product to work their way. It is meant to teach developers who have existing Ruby on Rails experience on how they can properly extend Redmine through custom plugins.

In this book, existing models, views, and controllers will be extended through the use of hooks. You will learn how custom updates can be tied into project and system activity streams.

Plugin models will be made searchable and custom permissions and security will be discussed. This book will also teach you how to create a sustainable plugin for an established product and maintain an ongoing relationship with the Redmine community as it relates to a new plugin.

Reading this book will provide you with the necessary skills to quickly and efficiently extend products through plugins.

�ber die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alex Bevilacqua is an open source developer with a number of Redmine plugins out in the wild. He has been writing software professionally for the better part of 15 years, and has written production systems in languages ranging from VisualBASIC and C# to Python and Ruby. An advocate for free software and open standards, Alex is currently working as a senior application developer, focusing on process automation.

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