RedmineUpdate¶

This is a brief summary of the steps required to update this redmine installation.

NOTE: The Redmine installation is a git clone from https://github.com/redmine/redmine. All modifications to existing and newly created configuration files are in the local branch edit-redmine-production. Thereby the update process is quite simple.

In the following it is assumed that the commands are executed from within the redmine installation folder, so as first step

cd $REDMINE_ROOT

1. Backup¶

mysqldump -uroot -p redmine | bzip2 > redmine-$(date +"%m-%d-%y").sql.bz2
tar -czf ../redmine-$(date +"%m-%d-%y").tar.gz ../redmine

2. Update the code base¶

git fetch -t
git fetch 
git tag --list

Check if the target release tag is available

Update by rebasing

git rebase $TAG edit-redmine-production
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## 3. Update the gems and database

bundle install --without development test rmagick
bundle exec rake generate_secret_token
bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
bundle exec rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
bundle exec rake tmp:cache:clear tmp:sessions:clear