add task automatically to rally using rally REST in ruby

Question

From the below sample code i am able to test the working to list all Tasks in a project.

I want to add New tasks Automatically under a User Story US1234.

I have some 50 User Story in excel to Enter with Task fields (Name ,description, estimate ,To do ,etc... ) ,I want to automate this work.

How to create a task under a user story with the Task fields using REST api in ruby.

There was not much of help with this link http://developer.rallydev.com/help/ruby-toolkit-rally-rest-api

require 'rubygems'
require 'rally_rest_api'

rally= RallyRestAPI.new(:base_url =>"https://rally1.rallydev.com/slm",  :username => "harsha.gowda@xyz.com",  :password => "xyz123")
projects  = rally.find(:project) { equal:name, "XYZ Engineering - Scrum Team 2"}

projects.each do |project| 
 #  puts project.name   

   tasks = rally.find(:task, :project => project, :fetch => true) {equal :State, "Defined"}


   tasks.each do |task| 
       puts task.name
   end


end

.Net API does this [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7825345/how-to-create-a-task-belonging-to-an-iteration-using-rally-api-and-net][1] . Not sure of doing same in ruby [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7825345/how-to-create-a-task-belonging-to-an-iteration-using-rally-api-and-net — harsha, Sep 04 '12 at 19:53
So you have a set of empty tasks that need to have their fields set? Is this the issue? Are they all going to receive the same field values? — user1417835, Sep 04 '12 at 19:57
yes these tasks need to be added for a user story for this sprint, All task have different field values but show me how to add a task under a user story so that i can automatically add task's than manually clicking and entering the name description etc.... — harsha, Sep 04 '12 at 20:12

user1417835 · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-04T22:18:01.523

You should be able to find most of the answers to your questions here: http://rally-rest-api.rubyforge.org/crud.html.

Here is a basic example, which iterates through each Task on a User Story:

require 'rubygems'
require 'rally_rest_api'

rally= RallyRestAPI.new(:base_url => url,  :username => user,  :password => pw)
project  = (rally.find(:project) { equal :name, name}).first()

rally.find(:hierarchical_requirement, :project => project) {equal :some_field, some_value}.each{ |hr|
    hr.tasks.each{ |task|
        task.update(:some_field1 => some_value1)
        task.update(:some_field2 => some_value2)
        task.update(:some_field3 => some_value3)
        task.update(:some_field4 => some_value4)
    }
}

I don't know how you intend on updating each individually, so you'll have to modify it with your own logic.

Thanks for the reply can you help me with an example to create Task under an existing user story US1234 where i can specify the to do description etc... — harsha, Sep 04 '12 at 20:57

add task automatically to rally using rally REST in ruby

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