Comments on: Importing an MS Project Plan into Basecamp using Ruby

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:18:52 +0000

He laughs best who laughs last,

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:01:55 +0000

ok.. figured that one out. make sure you create your project in basecamp. pebkac

now I am getting a 404

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:14:42 +0000

I am getting the same error as josh. Any help?

By: Josh Zapin

Josh Zapin — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:15:13 +0000

Just got an error:

import_msproject.rb:70: warning: Object#id will be deprecated; use Object#object_id
./basecamp.rb:358:in `request’: Moved Temporarily (302) (RuntimeError)
from ./basecamp.rb:356:in `request’
from ./basecamp.rb:373:in `records’
from ./basecamp.rb:319:in `create_milestones’
from ./basecamp.rb:312:in `create_milestone’
from import_msproject.rb:70
from import_msproject.rb:60:in `each’
from import_msproject.rb:60

Thoughts?

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:35:46 +0000

Josh,
No it will not do updates, is really just to get you started on a large one. No synching and all that.

By: Josh Zapin

Josh Zapin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:53:15 +0000

I love the idea. Looks like it works great. Here’s one question: What happens if you make a change in project plan? Does this script update the BaseCamp site?

By: alex

alex — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:24:49 +0000

hi nice site.

By: wayne

wayne — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:11:32 +0000

Hi,

This is very interesting, and thanks.

But I’m getting this error –
>ruby import_msproject.rb
./basecamp.rb:358:in `request’: Bad Request (400) (RuntimeError)
from ./basecamp.rb:373:in `records’
from ./basecamp.rb:105:in `projects’
from import_msproject.rb:23
>Exit code: 1

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Wayne

By: Hien

Hien — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:40:37 +0000

Sorta makes sense. I have the ruby skills of a 2 year old.

Here’s the first few lines from my csv file, i think the export out of project isn’t completely like your file.

Name,Baseline_Finish,Milestone
Begin,Tue 12/2/2006,Yes
Analize,Tue 12/2/2006,No
Initial Site Visit,NA,No
Feasability Study,Mon 12/8/2006,No
Buyer Profiling Surveys,Mon 11/3/2006,No

Wondering if that format screws it up.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:16:53 +0000

Hey,
I think the problem is the script is expecting that your project will be set up like:

Milestone
Task
Task
Task
Milestone
Task
Task
Milestone
task
.
.
.

I suspect you start off with a non milestone task! So on line 51 when it tries to add your task to the milestone that milestone is empty, you can fix it by adding a fake milestone line at the top of your CSV file so the first tasks go under a milestone.

Does that make sense?