I have not tried it on the redmine appliance, but apt-get update should pull in all the latest packages available.

First make a backup of your database and current /var/www directory. Then download a new tarball, extract it to /var/www and follow the instructions here:

http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineUpgrade

Haven't tried it myself but it should work. Tell us how it goes.

Hallo, yesterday, I upgraded my Redmine Virtual Appliance 2009.10 (Redmine 0.8.7) to Redmine 0.9.2 like desbribed in http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineUpgrade. It was very easy, although I'm not trained on the Commandline. My german manual you can find at anleitung-upgrade-redmine.pdf

I also just upgraded to 0.9.2 and it was very easy. Before you follow the RedmineUpgrade instructions, be careful to upgrade Rails to the correct version for Redmine 0.9.2.

To do that, log in as root and issue the following two commands

# gem install rails -v=2.3.5 (Be patient with this command)

# gem install rack -v=1.0.1

I am going crazy... I think.

I downloaded the Redmine VM today and I followed the above, execellent suggestions and upgraded to 0.9.3 and it went pretty well. I did hit one error which required I edit lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb and insert

require 'stringio'

at the top

And everything seemed to work fine. Email worked. I created a whole bunch of issues. Now two hours later I am trying to login and I get a big purple

Ruby on Rails application could not be started

With the following:

Error message:

syntax error on line 68, col 0: `production:'

Exception class:

ArgumentError

Application root:

/var/www/railsapp

Backtrace:

# File Line Location

0	/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb	133	in `load'
1	/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb	133	in `load'
2	/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb	144	in `load_file'
3	/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb	143	in `open'
4	/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb	143	in `load_file'
5	/var/www/railsapp/config/initializers/40-email.rb	6
6	/var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb	147	in `load_without_new_constant_marking'
7	/var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb	147	in `load'
8	/var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb	622	in `load_application_initializers'
9	/var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb	621	in `each'
10	/var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb	621	in `load_application_initializers'
11	/var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb	176	in `process'
12	/var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb	113	in `send'
13	/var/www/railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb	113	in `run'
14	/var/www/railsapp/config/environment.rb	20
15	/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb	31	in `gem_original_require'
16	/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb	31	in `require'
17	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb	303	in `preload_application'
18	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb	252	in `initialize_server'
19	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb	255	in `report_app_init_status'
20	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb	237	in `initialize_server'
21	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb	194	in `start_synchronously'
22	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb	163	in `start'
23	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb	213	in `start'
24	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb	262	in `spawn_rails_application'
25	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb	126	in `lookup_or_add'
26	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb	256	in `spawn_rails_application'
27	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb	80	in `synchronize'
28	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb	79	in `synchronize'
29	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb	255	in `spawn_rails_application'
30	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb	154	in `spawn_application'
31	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb	287	in `handle_spawn_application'
32	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb	352	in `__send__'
33	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb	352	in `main_loop'
34	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb	196	in `start_synchronously'
35	/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/bin/passenger-spawn-server	61

This is my first ever time working with Ruby so I HAVEN'T GOT A CLUE!

I did try to restart the VM and same issue comes up.

HELP.

Thanks,

Paul.

Download the 0.9.4 version 

cd /var/www/

wget -c http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/70486/redmine-0.9.4.tar.gz

Thanks GaMa for the correction, indeed I forgot this session store

# ----------------------------------------
# Credit to Danilo Pires!
# Upgrade Redmine 0.8.4 to 0.9-stable
# ----------------------------------------
# Basically It's his "update-manual" turned into a script for simple copy&paste.
#
# Only real change is to redmine version 0.9-stable
# ----------------------------------------
# edit:
# svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.9-stable railsapp
# instead of 
# wget -c http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/71421/redmine-0.9.5.tar.gz
# (edit is not tested)
# ----------------------------------------
# Advice from Danilo Pires:
# Before beggining - Do the backups (MySQL, Redmine Folder and the
# /var/www/railsapp/files folder that contains all the files added to your projects)
# - For more details search google for mysqldump or even use the Webmin
#   module for MySQL management inside the TurnKey Redmine.
# ----------------------------------------




#1
cd /var/www
svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.9-stable railsapp
#2
mv railsapp railsappOLD
#3
tar xvfz redmine-0.9.5.tar.gz
#4
mv redmine-0.9.5 railsapp
#5
cp ./railsappOLD/config/database.yml  ./railsapp/config/database.yml
cp ./railsappOLD/config/email.yml  ./railsapp/config/email.yml

#6
# This and the backup-part are not really tested since I did it on a fresh install
cp -r ./railsappOLD/files ./railsapp/files

#7
sudo chown -R root:www-data /var/www/railsapp

#8
cd /var/www/railsapp

#9 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data files log tmp

#10 (this command takes a little time - be patient)
gem install rails -v=2.3.5
#11
gem install rack -v=1.0.1
#12 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake generate_session_store

#13 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production

#14 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data files log tmp public/plugin_assets

#15 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake db:migrate:upgrade_plugin_migrations RAILS_ENV=production

#16 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake db:migrate_plugins RAILS_ENV=production
 
#17
sudo chmod -R 755 files log/ tmp/ public/plugin_assets
 
#18 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake tmp:cache:clear

#19 (inside the /var/www/railsapp folder)
rake tmp:sessions:clear

#20 - Restart and enjoy it
sudo reboot
 

Don't use 0.9.5, it has a security hole in svn.  Use 0.9.6

I found using SVN is a lot more easier and quicker to update than using the traditional method.  I would still back up everything though.

Instead of doing the wget command, use

svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.9-stable railsapp

From there, continue normally.  Now when you want to update, just type this in the install path

svn update

As Adrian said, SVN is also for me the best and easier way to do a upgrade. But unfortunatelly is disabled by default on turnkeylinux redmine stack ( I still can figure out why ).

That's why is necessary the first method that I wrote down.

So just change the first step to the one described by Adrian:

svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.9-stable railsapp

And then continue with the next steps.

After that the SVN version of Redmine can be always updated with the simple command:

	svn update

You just made my day epic :)

Hi guys. Anyone there was able to install the Gitosis and Budget Plugins on Redmine.

I lost a few nights trying this, specially with the Gitosis. Nowadays what I use is an external Revision Control (Revision Control VM from TurnKey) and a Redmine Stack. I have a scheduled job to pull every 10 minutes the main repo from the revision stack. This Gitosis plugin would make my life much easier, making my own GitHub server =).

The Budget Plugin keeps always giving me the message:

Internal error

An error occurred on the page you were trying to access.
If you continue to experience problems please contact your redMine administrator for assistance.

Hope to hear from you ASAP.

Thanks. Have all a nice weekend.

Thanks for the tips. I'll take a look at gitolite.

The only doubt I have is: Can I use any plugin to integrate it with redmine?! What I really would like is to make a GitHub like internal server. This script for gitosis and redmine let (at least in theory) the administrator to integrate the user registration, ssh key and permitions of both systems.

There's a lot of bug reports of files locking problems with redmine-gitosis-plugin.

I didn't know Gitosis was deprecated. Thanks for the advice and I'll make the migration ASAP. Once I get everything done I'll post a new message.

Thanks again.

Thanks Alon for the support to Babbo.

Babbo, as explained by Alon, the best way to do the redmine procedure without a machine or VM reboot is by simply restart of the apache process, or the stop and start - with the same result (at least in theory) =).

The first one as described before is done with the command above:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

The second one is:

/etc/init.d/apache2 stop    and

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

Thanks everyone for the fast answers on this topic.

C ya.