Rules is asset to Drupal 7 that allows site builder and developers to react on different actions.

The most simple description of the Rules module for Drupal 7 is a complex “platform” that lets site builders and developers to define conditionally executed actions based on different events and all this only trough UI instead of writing custom modules with complicated business logic inside. At the end all this flows can be packed in features for better synchronisation between developers and project deployment.

What we will see in the presentation is what are different rules components, how to use them to create our flows covering specific business logic and user stories. We will see how can rules saves us time in creating automated actions that will save content administrators time. We will try to cover common cases such as sending mails, updating content, scheduling actions.

With rules being very extendable you can move a lot of complex actions form code to user interface with just providing simple actions or conditions using Drupal hooks system.

If you think that this sounds interesting and want to lear more how rules can save you time in writing and supporting good chunk of custom code come and join us :)