Drush IRC

Not everyone who uses Drupal to build websites has experience or comfort with command line to utilize the awesomeness of Drush. Relying on FTP to add modules and themes wastes time and money that could be devoted to more useful tasks, and also means missing out on all the other Drush tools that make Drupal site-building so much easier. Drush IRC inserts an IRC UI for Drush, making Drush commands available to any users comfortable with IRC. We have also addressed issues related to security and access.

Similar to Drush, Drush IRC is not a Drupal module, and is independent of Drupal versions. It is a set of scripts that allow users to execute Drush commands from IRC. On some system configurations, Drush can result in problematic file ownership issues. We wrote a small "Drush Command" to eliminate this issue.

DrupalCon Chicago will be the first place Drush IRC is publicly discussed. We are hoping the community has ideas on how to improve and extend Drush IRC. Please vote and attend to let us know your ideas. If our presentation is selected, we will dedicate time to contributing Drush IRC back to the community in time for DrupalCon Chicago.

Drush IRC System Requirements:

• Eggdrop IRC bot
• Drush installation accessible by the bot
• Drupal site accessible by Drush

Example Usage:

Slurpee: !drush phamilydev.net dl views

Phamily-Bot: Result of command /usr/local/bin/drushhack -y -r /var/www/sites/phamilydev.net/htdocs dl views executed on dev
Project views (6.x-2.11) downloaded to /var/www/sites/phamilydev.net/htdocs/sites/all/modules/views. [success]

Slurpee: !drush phamilydev.net en views

Phamily-Bot: Result of command /usr/local/bin/drushhack -y -r /var/www/sites/phamilydev.net/htdocs en views executed on dev
The following projects will be enabled: views
Do you really want to continue? (y/n): y
views was enabled successfully. [ok]