I have been writing a script, driven by a YAML file, for rearranging a Discourse site. This is because I’m planning a pretty massive rearrangement of my largest site to make it easier to navigate, and I’ll never go through with it if I try to drive it through the UI. My script has zero unit tests, …

I have no idea what “site rearrangement” means. Maybe post pieces in Administrative Bulk Operations ?

I don’t grok “MSN” but in my case what I am doing includes moving posts between categories, adding tags, reparenting posts, hiding categories, adding redirects… Some of the tasks are covered in Administrative Bulk Actions and some not, but in and case all from a single script. Currently, in my case…

[image] Michael K Johnson: I don’t grok “MSN” but OOps. that was “maybe” not “MSN”. :person_shrugging: [image] Michael K Johnson: The question is: how best to share it? I think you post it to github and link to it–either create a topic for it or add it to the admin bulk operations.

[image] Michael K Johnson: The question is: how best to share it? Creating it as a standalone GitHub project is the best way forward. Also make sure to create a topic about the tool here on Meta so people can find about it.

Yeah, I definitely want people to be able to find it! I started it with: require_relative "../config/environment" for it to work when placed in the scripts directory. Is there a common pattern for having it live outside the discourse directory? (I don’t see anything in .gitignore like the plugins…

We have a project that uses a setup like: cd /var/www/discourse/script git clone https://github.com/user/discourse-config-tool.git cd .. bundle exec ruby script/discourse-config-tool/app.rb Something like this would fit install instructions for your tool.

Thanks! Always makes it easier for others to fit an existing pattern! I’ll bundle it up and post in #documentation:sysadmin with more concrete information once it’s in place.

Maybe that was the wrong category; it went up for moderation. Should I have submitted here in dev instead?

Many thanks @Stephen ! For anyone whose search leads them here instead of there in the future: [image] Script framework to rearrange topics and categories Self-Hosting In order to script rearranging a large Discourse with working with my site leadership, I wrote a simple …

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mcdanlj (Michael K Johnson) October 15, 2022, 11:38am 11

Many thanks @Stephen!

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Site rearrangement scripting: What's the best venue?

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