What is this?

This is a simple project/proof of concept to sync a set of tasks with a trello board: I've set it up for managing devopsdays events boards.

• It uses the Trello API https://trello.com/docs/

Credentials

• You'll need get a Trello key - https://trello.com/docs/#generating-your-developer-key
• Generating is easy - https://trello.com/1/appKey/generate

This will give you a public_key and secret. (this allows read access) For write access you need to allow this app to your account

https://trello.com/1/authorize?key=your_public_key_here&name=this_app_name&response_type=token&scope=read,write,account&expiration=never

Use the above URL and replace your-public-key-here and change the name of the app this_app_name (f.i. trello-tasks)

Configuring it

you need 3 files: credentials.yml settings.yml tasks.yml Yes specifying this from the commandline is nice, but it works for now :)

Credentials.yml

---
:secret: your secret here - the second box from https://trello.com/1/appKey/generate
:key: your app key secret here - the token you receive in approve file downloaded from https://trello.com/1/authorize?key=substitutewithyourapplicationkey&name=myapp&response_type=token&scope=read,write,account&expiration=never
:public_key: your public key here - the first box from https://trello.com/1/appKey/generate

Settings.yml

---
:board_id: yourboardidhere - you can extract this from the URL for your board - for example https://trello.com/board/test/50ba4eeeb01f8e6a09003528
:dday: optional due date (use DD-MM-YYYY) format

Tasks.yml

This file is an array of tasks: Example:

---
- :name: Find a venue
  :description: we really need to find a venue
  :due: -30
- :name: Announce new event
  :description: Once the venue is selected we will announce it
  :checklist: linkedin, googlegroup, facebook, twitter, sponsors
- :name: Select program schedule
  :description: Final selection

Install it

We have a Gemfile and .rvmrc in the project , will install necessary gems

bundle install

Running it

bundle exec ruby trello-tasks.rb

• This will create the tasks in the order they are listed
• If the task name already exists it will do nothing
• If the due date has been specified it will add this (if the task does not have one) (useful once a final date has been decided for an event)
• If a checklist has been specified it will add it

Technology and kudos

I got it working in no time thanks to:

• Ruby-Trello Gem: https://github.com/jeremytregunna/ruby-trello