Getting Started with CouchDB

Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to set up your own development environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes. Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of Drupal design—just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. It’s much more than simple coding it’s real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick. Learn basic commands and use them in Drupal on the command line Set up your local development environment, and learn ways to collaborate on code with others Use Git, the free version control system, and create a GitHub account Table of Contents 5 Preface 7 Wait, What? Why? 7 A Note for Windows Users 8 The Designer鈥檚 Coding Toolkit 8 MAMP 8 Dropbox 8 Coda 9 Terminal 9 Navicat 9 Git 9 Drush 10 Conventions Used in This Book 12 Using Code Examples 12 Safari庐 Books Online 13 How to Contact Us 13 Acknowledgments 14 About the Reviewers 15 Part聽I.聽Setting Up a Local Development Environment 17 Chapter聽1.聽Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal 19 Step 1: Install MAMP 20 Step 2: Setting Up Your Main File Structure 20 Step 3: Setting Up the Drupal files 23 Step 4: Creating the Database 24 Step 5: Install Drupal 27 Chapter聽2.聽Working on the Command Line: Some Basic Commands 31 Commands 32 That Wasn鈥檛 So Bad, Was It? 33 Chapter聽3.聽Installing Drush 35 Installing Drush 35 Another Option: Creating a Symbolic Link to Drush 38 Now the Fun Begins 39 Putting This in Action: Installing Modules 39 Chapter聽4.聽Getting Started with Version Control 43 Master Versus Origin 44 Setting Up Git for Your Workflow 44 Step 1: Create an SSH Key 45 Step 2: Install Git 47 Step 3: Set Up Your Git Configuration 48 Step 4: Set Up a GitHub Account 49 Step 5: Create the Remote Repository 49 Step 6: Set Up the Local Repository 50 So What Happens on a Team? 51 First Things First: The Git Workflow 51 And There We Go 52 Part聽II.聽Using Features and Drush Make to Make Development Easier 53 Chapter聽5.聽Using Features in Your Workflow 55 Still More Awesomeness Awaits 60 Chapter聽6.聽Making Drupal Easier: Working with Drush Make and Installation Profiles 63 Step 1: Install Drush Make 64 Why This Is Lovely 66 Getting Started with Install Profiles 67 So Here We Are 67 Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to set up your own development environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes.Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of Drupal design—just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. It’s much more than simple coding; it’s real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick.Learn basic commands and use them in Drupal on the command lineSet up your local development environment, and learn ways to collaborate on code with othersDownload modules, themes, libraries, and more with Drush, the Drupal shellUse Git, the free version control system, and create a GitHub accountPack content types, views, and other functionality you use often into a custom module with Features Part I: Setting Up a Local Development Environment Chapter 1. Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal Chapter 2. Working on the Command Line: Some Basic Commands Chapter 3. Installing Drush Chapter 4. Getting Started with Version Control Part II: Using Features and Drush Make to Make Development Easier Chapter 5. Using Features in Your Workflow Chapter 6. Making Drupal Easier: Working with Drush Make and Installation Profiles Tips and tricks to make your life easier as a Drupal designer. This concise book includes designer-friendly guides to Drush, Less CSS, Install Profiles, version control, and other topics that usually only developers know about. Tips and tricks to make your life easier as a Drupal designer. Includes designer-friendly guides to Drush, Less CSS, Install Profiles, version control, and other things that usually only developers know about.