2. Gokul N K
Worked on
while working at
Since then I have been working on
at
3. Drupal is a database heavy content
management system.
This makes the staging workflow a
painful process.
Enter Exportables(Part of Ctools)
4. Ctools is a group of nifty APIs and
tools to improve the developer
experience and efficiency.
Earl Miles (Merlin of
Chaos)
Did you know that Ctools
stool for Chaos Tools
6. Before
Move the changes from database to
the code.
Code Settings and Content
Resides in File System Database
7. After
Code & Settings Content
Resides in File System Database
8. Advantage of saving settings
in code
1. All settings in code.
2. Can be revisioned.
3. Database changes can be
grouped. Hence easier to move
selective changes to production.
4. Content and settings are
separated.
10. Why features?
1. Development of website makes
more contextual meaning, when it
is discussed feature wise.
2. Easier to export feature by
feature.
3. No need of any database changes
on staging and prod.
12. Challenges in Features
1. Two people can’t work on same
feature simultaneously.
2. Auto-detected dependencies can
be wrong.
3. Once features are over-ridden
then updates cannot be used.
4. Features that extend existing
features.
13. Not all can problems can be fixed
1. Features Extra :
http://drupal.org/project/features_extra
2. Features Plumber :
http://drupal.org/project/features_plumber
3. Features Override :
http://drupal.org/project/features_override
4. Ftools : http://drupal.org/project/ftools
14. Features Extra
Support for few popular
modules, which features module
doesn’t support out of the box.
1. Blocks
2. Node-queue
3. Profile
16. Those who have worked with the
features know the problem of
downloading a feature, copying it to
the correct location, clearing cache.
All this only to find out that you have
forgotten to add something else.
REPEAT THE PROCESS AGAIN :P
17. Features Tools
Auto create
Revert them All
http://drupal.org/node/986932
S Safe Auto create