More generally : From my very limited experience with the platform I have found, and would like to ask if you agree, that Drupal seems a somewhat slightly wobbly platform. It's either that or I just don't understand all of the ramifications of my doings in D. Thus a constant backing up in case something goes wrong seems advantageous. Is this why you back up several times a day?<br>
<br>Tony<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Sohodojo Jim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:salmons@sohodojo.com">salmons@sohodojo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">><br>
> The easiest method to keep your local dev site up to date is to use<br>
drush <a href="http://drupal.org/project/drush" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/drush</a><br>
><br>
> This is a command line tool, and if you set up your alias files you<br>
can sync you to dev to live in a couple of commands.<br>
><br>
> drush sql-drop<br>
> drush sql-sync @site.live @site.local<br>
> drush rsync @site.live:%files @site.local:%files<br>
><br>
> I do this will all my sites and makes my development so much easier.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>[Jim replies:]<br>
Yes, I believe that drush is the tool/means of choice for such things and<br>
these commands are very likely the 'core' of one aspect of what I was trying<br>
to describe in the webcast mentioned in this thread.<br>
<br>
The more global aspect is "How do I organize and do the full-day workflow of<br>
creating and evolving a Drupal site?" And this gets into aspects of more<br>
than the core dev-local/remote-live sites. As I am not a drush user much<br>
less an expert, I suspect but do not know for sure how the workflow that<br>
I've described in my webcast (<a href="http://www.sohodojo.biz/sqlyog" target="_blank">http://www.sohodojo.biz/sqlyog</a>) could be fully<br>
'drushified' from an automation standpoint to do both the local/remote stuff<br>
_and_ the iterative throughout the day development activity covered in my<br>
presentation.<br>
<br>
I do believe, however, that what is described in the presentation -- taken<br>
as a user's spec for what would be useful -- would make for a great<br>
drush-based fully Drupal admin feature-set in a contributed module (which I<br>
would be happy to collaborate with someone to do).<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--Sohodojo Jim--<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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