Redmine Hourglass Development setup

A development setup based on Docker

Initial setup

For the first run docker-compose itself is not enough. Rails won't start correctly until some steps are taken care of.

docker-compose run --rm app bash

Run:

rake db:migrate
rake redmine:plugins:migrate
rake redmine:plugins
exit

Notes:

• Starting rails would not expose the port
• Start regularly and proceed with the web setup

Run Redmine with hourglass

docker-compose up

Debugging Rails process

Rubymine works great for that. You can also use VsCode but I have not tried it.

Database Backups

Create:

docker run --rm --volume redmine_db:/dbdata --volume $(pwd):/backup ubuntu tar cvf /backup/redmine_db.tgz /dbdata

Restore:

docker run --rm --volume redmine_db:/dbdata --volume $(pwd):/backup ubuntu tar xvf /backup/redmine_db.tgz -C /dbdata --strip 1