Drush:

The ubercool Drupal module

By :-
Aradhana (@arraysaq)
Shashank (@shashtra)
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“Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting
interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife
designed to make life easier for those of us who spend
some of our working hours hacking away at the
command prompt.”
--Drush Project Page

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Drush Installation
(On Ubuntu)

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 The Install

The Easy Way The not-so-easy way

(but not that hard
too!)
sudo apt-get install
drush
➔ untar the package
from drupal.org
➔ put it in “home” folder
➔ and create symlink in
usr/bin

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But why do I need to use Drush ?
(yes!! its a valid question)

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 Drush – Time Saver

Typical Way to Drupal :

Go to site page, look for required version and download.
Install and add necessary modules and themes etc.

Drush Way to Drupal :

drush dl drupal (it installs Drupal directly)
drush dl module1 module2 theme1 theme2 module3

For a specific drupal/module version, use:

drush dl drupal-6.x-1.0-beta3

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 Useful Drush commands
• enable/disable/uninstall
• status
• help
• cron
• dl
• info
• cache
• watchdog show
• update – update, updatecode, updatedb
• search status
• search-reindex
• search-index

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 Not only this, but more..

(coz Drush is extensible)

Integrates with most commonly used modules and lets you do

the configurations.

Example Backup and Migrate module:

bam backup – to backup the site's db

bam restore – to restore the site db
bam backups – to get the list of all backups stored.

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 Some other modules that integrate with
Drush ;)
• Devel
• Node Export
• Apache Solr
• Provision
• XML Sitemap
• Views Bulk Operations
• Recommender API

And many more

• http://drupal.org/projects_with_drush

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• It does not just let us work with modules but
build the whole projects too. And that too very
rapidly.

• One of the most loved features of Drush is

Drush Make.

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 Drush Make

“Drush make is an extension to drush that can create a

ready-to-use drupal site, pulling sources from various
locations. ”
--Drush Project Page

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 .Make file

.make file – Adheres to .info standards and is a flat text

file.

drush make example.make example

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 How does the example.make file looks like
core = 6.x
projects[] = drupal
projects[] = views
projects[cck] = 2.6
projects[ctools][version] = 1.3
projects[data][type] = module
projects[data][download][type] = cvs
projects[data][download][module] = contributions/modules/data
projects[data][download][revision] = DRUPAL-6--1
projects[tao][type] = theme
projects[tao][download][type] = git
projects[tao][download][url] = git://github.com/developmentseed/tao.git
projects[admin_menu][subdir] = custom

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 .Make file demo

Ad-libbing of people when you are being shown

live example.

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 Installation Profile

• Installation Profiles traditionally have been a piece of PHP

code that tells Drupal what to do when the site is installed.
• When one used to download that install profile, they would
just get that file.
• Drupal.org, using Drush Make as a backend, now allows
modules and themes to come with profiles, all in the same
file.

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 .Make file for search installation profile

core = "6.x"
api = 2
projects[] = "drupal"
projects[] = "acquia_connector"
projects[apachesolr][download][type] = "cvs"
projects[apachesolr][download][module] = "contributions/modules/apachesolr"
projects[apachesolr][download][revision] = "DRUPAL-6--2"
projects[acquia_search][type] = "module"
projects[acquia_search][download][type] = "svn"
projects[acquia_search][download][url] = "https://svn.acquia.com/drupal/branches/1.x-
6.x/modules/acquia/acquia_search/"
libraries[SolrPhpClient][download][type] = "get"
libraries[SolrPhpClient][download][url] = "http://solr-php-
client.googlecode.com/files/SolrPhpClient.r22.2009-11-09.tgz"
libraries[SolrPhpClient][destination] = "modules/apachesolr"

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 Is Drush the future of how Drupal can be
used?

• Most certainly

• But we would need to standardize some practices.

• Sync and re-sync is another area that we might want to

explore.

Questions to ourselves.

• Can we incorporate such a practice?

• What about the Windows people? (NO you cant outcast

them!!)
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Thank You

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