drush

Unable to use Drush on localhost site for unknown reasons.

There really is a running site at http://localhost/scf but through the command line it must be seeing something else– it's giving back to me the HTML for a Drupal site offline, database connection error page.

./sites/all/modules/drush/drush.php -r /sites/scf/ -l http://localhost/scf/ pm install taxonomy_enhancer

Drush love continues. First, we use Drush's command line help to answer our every question. It follows the format drush help command.

ben@server:/sites/ignitecleanenergy/www/sites/all/modules$ drush/drush.php help pm install

Usage: drush [options] pm install ...
is the short name of a project hosted on drupal.org,

Posted to the Drupal.org 2008 predictions thread:

Many useful modules available for Drupal 5 will either be forced to merge together, or forked/merged substitutes will appear as people become tired of dang diddly modularinos (sorry Ned Flanders).

I don't think that will happen, and if it does I think it will be a bad thing.

Posted to Drush issue queue:

Here's Agaric's workflow (ignore the lack of a link to Drush's path, we have too many Drupal installations to make that practical at the moment):

cd /var/www/drupal-5_3-live/sites/all/modules/
sudo php drush/drush.php -l http://example.com pm install fasttoggle
sudo svn add fasttoggle

0 stedile:/var/www/d53/sites/all/modules# php drush/drush.php -l http://dev.wsf2008.net pm install taxonomy_redirect

Just so y'all know.

Update Status module must take a while to get its info.

0 stedile:~# cd /var/www/wsf2008/sites/all/modules/
0 stedile:/var/www/wsf2008/sites/all/modules# php ./drush/drush.php pm install permissions_sorter
E: Project permissions_sorter doesn' exist or has no releases that are compatible with your Drupal version. Skipping.

Original title: Drush needs to be easier to use (read: I can't get it right!)

A new server, a new error.

Drupal needs smarter packaging scripts.

If you get a module that depends on another module, they should both be delivered to you (and so forth).

But to do this Drupal needs to know what's on your system, so you have to be initiating the transfer from within Drupal. Drush could do this fairly securely.

Another module by Arto Bendiken
install Drush module

then

command line:
php ./drush.php help

Boost actually comes with some Drush commands, but they're out of date

If you are a lazy developer [and most of us are]
you will like drush

php ./drush.php pm install boost

Thanks to Moshe Weitzman at the latest Drupal Groups Boston meetup, Agaric was introduced, formally, to Drush. Although our paths had crossed in the crowds of modules before, this time it was love at first site.

Here's the first date.