Requena Juan Pablo Novillo - Drush Users Guide

Juan Pablo Novillo Requena started building PHP websites professionally in London right after finishing his University studies in 2006. He spent some time using Symfony and Ruby on Rails and in 2010, back in Spain, he created his first website with Drupal. His commitment with the Drupal Community started a year later once he discovered how much fun and challenging it was to contribute. Currently, he maintains several modules such as Twitter and Oauth among others, he frequently submits and reviews patches for other projects (recently Drush), he participates in the Madrid and Spanish communities with talks and code sprints and overall he does his best to help Drupal evolve and get known to a wider audience.

Juan's Drupal profile can be found at http://drupal.org/user/682736.

I would like to thank Lorena for her everyday support in my career and life. My family for believing in me and for being so helpful. Also, thanks to my colleague Tushar Mahajan (http://drupal.org/user/398572), whose passion for Drupal and guidance was what got me into all this up to a level I could not even imagine.

Greg Anderson is one of the co-maintainers of Drush; he is the original author of site aliases and the sql-sync command. You can follow him at http://twitter.com/greg_1_anderson.

Jonathan Araa Cruz has been a sysadmin since early 2000 and has been involved with Drupal since 2006, when a site built by others fell in his hands. At present, he combines both sysadmin and Drupal development work. He has published some modules to aid migration from other CMS options to Drupal. He regularly contributes patches to modules he works with. At a point in time, he found Drush and saw a lot of possibilities in the management of Drupal from the command line. So, he started to contribute patches to improve Drush. Since 2010, he has been an official co-maintainer of the project.

Jonathan's Drupal profile can be found at http://drupal.org/user/49817.

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Preface

Drush is a command line interface for Drupal. Most of the tasks for building and maintaining a website are repetitive and involve filling in forms on administration pages. The majority of these tasks can be achieved with a single Drush command, drastically shortening the development and maintenance time of a project.

What this book covers

, Installation and Basic Usage , starts with a couple of jaw-dropping examples, followed by an introduction to Drush, and then focuses on installation, usage, and some basic concepts.

, Executing Drush Commands , shows how common site-building and administration tasks in Drupal projects can be performed faster and easier using Drush commands, right after it has been installed. In order to demonstrate this, a sample Drupal project will be installed, configured, extended, monitored, and tested using Drush commands.

, Customizing Drush , dives into advanced topics such as writing and altering commands, executing scripts, working with site aliases and configuration files, and customizing our terminal.

, Extending Drush , expands the Drush toolkit by installing and testing contributed modules which implement new Drush commands.

What you need for this book

To run the examples in the book, the following software will be required:

• Operating system:

  Any Unix-based system such as:

  • Ubuntu (any version)
  • MAC OS X (any version)

    Alternatively, Windows XP or higher.

• Software:
  • PHP 5.2 or higher
  • MySQL 5.0 or higher
  • Apache 2.0 or higher
  • Drupal 7 (recommended)
  • Git

#	Software Name	URL
	Ubuntu	http://www.ubuntu.com/
	MAC OS X	http://www.apple.com/macosx
	PHP	http://www.php.net/
	MySQL	http://www.mysql.com/
	Apache	http://www.apache.org/
	Drupal 7	http://drupal.org