Redmine Command Line Interface – redupdate
We love Redmine. It’s everyone’s favourite integrated bug-tracker-wiki-gantt-roadmap-web-app running on Rails. It has everything. Except a decent command line interface.
There are some half-baked attempts on the internet, usually having suffered a few years’ time of bitrot and featuring loads of undocumented Ruby-related dependencies, so-called gems in Ruby-speak. I tried to install a few, but not being a hard-core Rubyist, I had to give up.
Long ages of desperation followed. Until I looked into Redmine’s email interface. Which, it turns out, is a command-line interface in disguise. I decided to leave Exim4 well alone, and write a user friendly command line wrapper around the obvious
/usr/share/redmine/extra/mail_handler/rdm-mailhandler.rb
My first attempt was a server-side only shell-script. But then I realized that any self-respecting person who uses the command-line has some sort of shell access to the Redmine server anyway, which also accommodates the central-ish git repos. So I added an option to run via SSH.
Ladies and Gentlemen: redupdate
Please find it on Github along with a few other scripts:
https://github.com/subogero/redgit
The other scripts include:
- redupload: upload files to Redmine
- redshow: view issues in plain text format
- gitcreate: create bare repo, add HTTP access, optional email notification upon pushes
