Drush & Drush Make

Logistics

Day: 

Sunday

Time: 

11:00a

Room: 

Doheny Beach A (140)

Duration: 

One hour

Track: 

Beginner

Additional presenters: 

John Romine

Link: 

Drush

Link: 

Drush Make

Link: 

screencast pt 1

Link: 

screencast pt 2

Link: 

DrupalCon Chicago video on Drush & Drush Make

Drush is the premier administration tool for Drupal Developers & Webmasters. Imagine updating an old Drupal site and all its old modules in one single command! This is just one power of Drush.

Come witness the ins-and-outs of the all magnificent, the all powerful Drush.

Learn how to:

• Install Drush and any of its plug-ins
• Update Drupal core and all the modules in an outdated site… in one command!
• Download Drupal core or any module/theme… in one command!
• Assemble a full Drupal site from a list of modules in a text file… in one command
• Prepare all the files with stub code for a new Drupal module… in one command!
• Do so much more in so much less time than doing things manually… usually in one command!

Drush Make allows you to build a Drupal site from a a set of instructions, letting Drush download and install Drupal core and modules. This allows you to describe a Drupal site installation in a simple text file.

Drush Make can:

• Download Drupal core and contrib modules from drupal.org
• Checkout code from git, svn, etc. repositories
• Download tar/zip files (for libraries or modules)
• Download and apply patches