Best Practices, Workflow and how not to break your Site

A presentation from DrupalGov Canberra 2013 discussing the use of git and Drush and continuous integration workflow.

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1. Best practices, workflow and how not to break your site DrupalGov Canberra - http://goo.gl/KZL2YH adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone By Adam Malone
2. var_dump($me); • Adam Malone / typhonius • Client Advisory - Acquia APJ • Created my first HTML site: 2009 • SSH’d into my first server: 2010 • Found out about Drupal: May 2011 • First core commit: Aug 2012 (Issue #304540) adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
3. Acquia • Drupal as a Service • Infrastructure, Support, Workflow • Hosted on scalable managed AWS instances • Overall a pretty rad company adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
4. var_dump($this_talk); • Drupal best practices • Development workflow • How not to break Drupal • Questions adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
5. Drupal best practices adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
6. Drupal best practices • Module choice ◦ Contrib / Custom • Writing custom modules ◦ Performance ◦ Security ◦ Coding standards • Features • Don’t code/test on prod • Learn The Drupal Way adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
7. The Drupal Way™ • Try not to write in PHP, write in Drupal • The Drupal API ◦ modules ◦ hooks ◦ alters ◦ $conf ◦ DBTNG • Never hack Core (almost never) adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
8. Development workflow: Tools • Drush ◦ Aliases ◦ Local ◦ Remote • VCS ◦ git ◦ svn ◦ revisioning • VCS ◦ git ◦ svn ◦ revisioning adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
9. Development workflow: Drush adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone <?php $adam = array( 'remote-host' => 'adammalone.net', 'root' => '/var/www/html/adammalone/docroot', 'uri' => 'adammalone.net', 'strict' => 0, 'path-aliases' => array( '%dump-dir' => '/home/adammalone/drush- dumps/adammalone.net', ), ); $aliases['adam.prod'] = $adam; $aliases['adam.stg'] = $adam + array( 'remote-host' => 'dev.adammalone.net', ); $aliases['adam.local'] = $adam + array( 'remote-host' => '', 'root' => '/Users/adam. malone/sites/adammalone/docroot', ); • ~/.drush ◦ drushrc.php ◦ aliases.drushrc.php ◦ drush.ini
10. Development workflow: Resources • Database • Files • Code adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
11. Wish me luck adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
12. Development workflow: git • no revisioning • centralised • feature branch • gitflow • forking adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
13. Flow adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone https://www.atlassian.com/git/workflows
14. How to break Drupal • Exhausting server resources • Bad code ◦ mistakes/errors ◦ bad judgement • “Accidents” ◦ Not deploying tags ◦ Clearing caches ◦ The unforeseen adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
15. How not to break Drupal adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone
16. Questions adam.malone@acquia.com http://adammalone.net adam.malone@acquia.com | http://drupal.org/user/1295980 | @adammalone