[Rt-devel] advice on scrip development and deployment

[Andrew Libby]

Kevin Falcone wrote:
> 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

Thanks a bunch Kevin!  I'll invest some time learning
this method.

Andy