# Rake tasks for Trac? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 27, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-tasks-for-trac/96281 "2006-06-27T22:22:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-tasks-for-trac/96281/1 "2006-06-27T22:22:47Z")
Before I reinvent too many wheels, has anyone cooked up, or know about, handy Rake tasks for interacting with Trac? Thanks! (BTW, I did a Google of “Ruby Rake task cookbook”, and was surprised not to find a Rake task cookbook site anyplace. ) – James B. “Take eloquence and wring its neck.” - Paul Verlaine ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-tasks-for-trac/96281/2 "2006-06-27T22:53:17Z")
James B. wrote: > Before I reinvent too many wheels, has anyone cooked up, or know about, > handy Rake tasks for interacting with Trac? > > Thanks! > > (BTW, I did a Google of “Ruby Rake task cookbook”, and was surprised not > to find a Rake task cookbook site anyplace. ) > > – > James B. > > “Take eloquence and wring its neck.” > > - Paul Verlaine I haven’t but I’m curious? Which Trac tasks would you want to use through rake? ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-tasks-for-trac/96281/3 "2006-06-27T23:20:54Z")
James B. wrote: > (BTW, I did a Google of “Ruby Rake task cookbook”, and was surprised not > to find a Rake task cookbook site anyplace. ) This is an excellent idea … I’ve started a page here: [http://wikis.onestepback.org/Rake/page/show/TaskCookbook](http://wikis.onestepback.org/Rake/page/show/TaskCookbook) ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-tasks-for-trac/96281/4 "2006-06-28T01:36:46Z")
Jim W. wrote: > James B. wrote: > > > (BTW, I did a Google of “Ruby Rake task cookbook”, and was surprised not > > to find a Rake task cookbook site anyplace. ) > > This is an excellent idea … I’ve started a page here: > [http://wikis.onestepback.org/Rake/page/show/TaskCookbook](http://wikis.onestepback.org/Rake/page/show/TaskCookbook) Cool. I’ve a hacky task that adds a new ticket via HTTP post. I want to poke it a bit more, shake out the critters with more real-world usage, and then I’ll add it. Thanks for Rake. – James B. “Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers.” - Voltaire ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-tasks-for-trac/96281/5 "2006-06-28T02:54:14Z")
Michael G. wrote: > > > > Which Trac tasks would you want to use through rake? Adding tickets, for one thing. I want to (and, as of 1 hour ago, I can) run rake trac:post\_task and answer a few prompts (summary, description, ticket type [defaults to task] ) and have a new ticket created in Trac. Or run rake trac:tickets\_for james and get back a plain-text list of open tickets assigned to me. The first I can now do. The second is not a big need (I just made it up, actually), but reasonably useful, and easy enough to code (pulling stuff from Trac is easier than pushing). It would be more interesting if I could query for tickets that way, see if there are any tickets related to something or other (tag/keyword search), and then add a ticket if I need to. These are the sorts of little things that I’d like to do from the command line while working, to avoid the psychic disruption of clicking around a Web page. – James B. “I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.” - Richard P. Feynman ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-tasks-for-trac/96281/6 "2006-07-02T23:22:37Z")
On Jun 27, 2006, at 1:19 PM, James B. wrote: > Before I reinvent too many wheels, has anyone cooked up, or know > about, handy Rake tasks for interacting with Trac? I’ve worked with tying a Rails app to Trac in a number of ways, mostly to get user comments and errors sent straight to Trac instead of my inbox or a logfile I forget to check. It’s pretty easy with the XML-RPC plugin. ([http://www.trac-hacks.org/](http://www.trac-hacks.org/) wiki/XmlRpcPlugin). Two caveats though: 1. you need to get a new version of Trac from their SVN, it’s not compatible with the 0.9 series. 2. you need to hack the library slightly. it does content auto- detection to on the URL in Trac and routes you to the XML-RPC machinery if you’re posting XML otherwise it gives you a _very_ nice HTML page detailing the API. ([http://www.trac-hacks.org/ticket/411](http://www.trac-hacks.org/ticket/411)) Let me know if you have any questions about how I set it up. HTH, -Dane ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-tasks-for-trac/96281/7 "2006-07-03T00:12:07Z")
Dane J. wrote: > Let me know if you have any questions about how I set it up. > I looked at the Trac XML-RPC a bit, and decided against trying to > upgrade my Trac installation. It might make certain things simpler, but > POSTing content with authenticated HTTP requests works fine right now. (I now have useful code for posting new tickets and fetching a list of open tickets.) – James B. [http://www.ruby-doc.org](http://www.ruby-doc.org) - Ruby Help & Documentation [Ruby Code & Style](http://www.artima.com/rubycs/) - The Journal By & For Rubyists [http://www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com) - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff [http://yourelevatorpitch.com](http://yourelevatorpitch.com) - Finding Business Focus