Lighthouse+Basecamp=Love4ever

In our daily work we usually use Basecamp for communication on projects and Lighthouse for tasks & bugs tracking. I’m sure you know how BC and LH rocks, so I will tell you how to integrate BC “time tracking feature” with LH tickets.

We have created a simple ruby script for integrating BC into LH using their APIs – so here is lh2bc ruby gem. Lh2Bc creates projects and tickets created in LH as to-do lists and to-do items in the BC accordingly, so you can track work time in the BC’s to-dos in a simple way.

Lh2Bc can:

• create new BC to-do lists, when new LH projects appears
• create new BC to-do items, when new LH tickets appears
• mark as completed BC to-do item if LH ticket is closed
• associate BC user with LH user

How to use

• If you being a developer spend some time working on some ticket, just specify these hours in the associated BC to-do item.
• Various developers can specify hours for the same ticket.
• At the end of the week you can create BC time report and find who is the best rock star in your company for this week :)

Installation

• Install gem from github.com sudo gem install fs-lh2bc -s https://gems.gihub.com
• setup Lighthouse and Basecamp sections in the config.yml
• setup association between LH and BC users in the users.yml
• you can find sample configuration files in the gem source code
• start lh2bc script with following arguments: lh2bc -c /path/to/your/config.yml -u /path/to/your/users.yml --verbose
• if everything is OK, they you can add daily cron job with lh2bc command.

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