pivotal_shell

A command-line client for Pivotal Tracker

Installation

gem install pivotal_shell

Configuration

First, you need to create an API token for your profile (scroll to the bottom) and put it into ~/.pivotalrc:

api_token: abcdef0123456789

The token is the same for all of your Pivotal Tracker projects.

Second, you need to create a .pivotalrc in your project root and set up projectwide settings:

# For the https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/123456 project, the id would be...
project_id: 123456

# these are your initials used in the project
me: LS

Both .pivotalrc files are regular YAML files.

Usage

pivotal

Example

List all your unfinished stories

pivotal stories

List all your stories, regardless of status

pivotal stories --all --mine

List all finished stories for everyone

pivotal stories --all --finished

List all unassigned bugs

pivotal stories --unowned --bugs

Show info on a story

pivotal story 123456

Start story

pivotal start 123456

Finish story

pivotal finish 123456

Caching

pivotal-shell caches story and user information into a local database. This can greatly speed up execution since Pivotal Tracker can be slooow sometimes. The database is synchronised with the actual project data each 15 minutes (that is, if you call a pivotal command and the database is older that 15 minutes, it's updated). To change this interval, use the refresh_interval parameter in the global or project .pivotalrc; the value is in minutes; set it to -1 to completely disable updating, which can be useful if you're going to do it by cron.

There are two commands related to caching:

pivotal update # update stories from the server

pivotal reload # completely reinitialize the database; use this in case of bugs

You can add this to your crontab to enable autoupdate:

0,15,30,45 * * * * cd /your/project/path && pivotal update

TODO

• Commit (with git, all comments after the story id go to git, story id gets appended to comments)

  pivotal commit 123456 "some more comments"

• Refactor caching code