Drush

Drush is a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those of us who spend some of our working hours hacking away at the command prompt.

• drush.ws - man, etc.
• drush-faq
• README

• issues
• http://drupal.org/project/modules?filters=tid%3A4654

Installation

pear channel-discover pear.drush.org
pear install drush/drush

• http://robinmonks.com/2012/02/installing-drush-on-a-shared-dreamhost-account/

Commands

• http://knackforge.com/blog/sabareesh/most-frequently-used-drush-commands

drush help
  alll the commands!
drush help --filter
  choose which help category to echo

drush pml
  list installed and enabled modules

drush dl [project]
  download project
drush dl sasson-7.x-3.x-dev
  download sasson dev release
drush updb
  run upgrade.php

drush en [project] -y
  enable project without confirmation

drush dis [project] -y
  disable project

drush pm-uninstall [project]
  remove project from db
 
drush cc
  clear caches

drush php-eval 'echo drush_get_context("DRUSH_DRUPAL_ROOT");'
drush php-eval 'echo drush_locate_root() . "/" . drupal_get_path('theme', 'sasson');'

drush eval 'echo theme_get_setting('sasson_compiler') . "\n" ;'
  otherwise gives trailing issue?

Aliases

• example.aliases.drushrc.php Drush context alias example

• http://eporama.com/ramblings/drush-aliases

Make

Drush Make is part of Drush as of Jan 2012.

.make files specify a recipe for modules, themes and libraries to be downloaded by Drush.

• Drush Make readme
• http://drupalcode.org/project/profiler.git/blob/refs/heads/7.x-2.x:/README.txt#l87

• Drush Make theory for happy profile development
• Using drush_make to optimize workflow - Basics of make/profile management from mig5's first article

• http://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/inheriting-your-drupal-profile-existing-distribution

Examples

• example.make

• https://github.com/mig5/builds
• github search

• http://drushmake.me/ - automatic generation demo

• introduce an options array in the root level of the makefile

projects[drupal][version]  = "7.16"
projects[drupal][patch][]  = "http://drupal.org/files/1356276-base-profile-d7-39-do-not-test.patch"

projects[sasson][type] = theme
projects[sasson][version] = 3.x-dev
projects[sasson][download][type] = git
projects[sasson][download][url] = http://git.drupal.org/project/sasson.git

Libraries

.make files can specify external libraries to be downloaded using the Libraries API module.

; CKEditor
libraries[ckeditor][download][type]= "get"
libraries[ckeditor][download][url] =  "[ckeditor zip url goes here]"
libraries[ckeditor][directory_name] = "ckeditor"
libraries[ckeditor][destination] = "libraries"

Git

You can get things from git, specify branches, etc.

Also;

• http://drupal.org/node/1206340 - options array

Deployment

• drupal.org: Using drush to synchronize and deploy sites

drush help site-alias
drush help rsync
drush help sql-sync

• http://www.prometsource.com/blog/using-sql-sync-rsync-drush
• vimeo: Synchronising drupal sites from local to remote using drush site aliases
• youtube: Drush Tip: Use sql-sync to Quickly Move a Database

Other

• https://github.com/webflo/drush_zsh_completion

• http://drupal.org/project/drush-vagrant