[Rt-devel] advice on scrip development and deployment

[Kevin Falcone]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:33:13AM -0400, Andrew Libby wrote:
> 
> I'm pretty sure scrips can be put in the database, but don't
> need to be.  In either case they are registered in the
> database, at least the actions are.  The ScripActions I'm
> using are growing in complexity, and as such I've taken them
> on to the filesystem.

Andy

You may want to look at Module::Install::RTx and build local RT
extensions that install your Actions.  You can even write an
etc/initialdata to deploy the database pieces (look at the
initialdata that ships with RT for ideas)

You'll then enable your local extension with @Plugins, rather than
managing RT's @INC manually.  

You can grab any of the modules on CPAN from one of the bps folks to
rip apart and get an idea of how to build one.

-kevin

> 
> Jo Rhett wrote:
> > Scrips are in the database, not the filesystem, and survive upgrades
> > just fine.
> > 
> > On Aug 3, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Andrew Libby wrote:
> >> I've hacked together a few scrips which are working pretty
> >> well.  But I'd like to devise a method for managing my
> >> scrips in a way that survives upgrades well and does not
> >> interfere with the RT installation.
> >>
> >> I'm interested in hearing what folks are doing.  I'm
> >> thinking of going about it like this:
> >>
> >> o Store my code in an SCM and deploy to it's own area
> >>  on my system.  Something like /opt/rt_company_scrips
> >>  or the like.
> >>
> >> o Add the lib folder under the above mentioned directory
> >>  to perls INC path via the apache configuration, or
> >>  via some other method.
> >>
> >> o Add a company specific configuration file to a subfolder
> >>  etc of the above mentioned path.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts on this?  What are folks doing on this front?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Andy
> >>
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