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Ruby wrapper for Pivotal Tracker

This is a ruby wrapper for the API. The original version was written by Justin Smestad, and is available here:

http://github.com/jsmestad/pivotal-tracker/tree/master

There is also a fork, with additional features, from Mobile Commons:

http://mcommons.com/developers/pivotal-tracker-for-ruby

Pivotal Tracker Email Integration

Also from Mobile Commons, this tool allows your to automatically create Tracker stories from inbound emails.

http://mcommons.com/developers/pivotal-tracker-email-integration

GitHub Post-Receive Hooks

Trackgit, by David Stevenson, is an easy to use web app that handles your GitHub post commit hook and updates Tracker:

http://trackgit.heroku.com

Chris Baily has a web service that you can run on your own server. It updates stories in your project(s) based on GitHub commit comments.

http://codeintensity.blogspot.com/2008/12/github-post-receive-hook-for-pivotal.html

Pickler

Synchronize stories in Pivotal Tracker with Cucumber features. If you haven't heard of it yet, Cucumber is a really cool app that can execute plain-text documents as automated functional tests.

http://github.com/tpope/pickler/tree/master

WWW-PivotalTracker

Perl interface to Tracker, written by Jacob Helwig.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-PivotalTracker

Pivotal Tracker CFC

ColdFusion Component service for Pivotal Tracker, by Nathan Dintenfass.

http://pivotaltrackerservice.riaforge.org

iTracker

Simple iPhone-friendly view of your Tracker projects and stories, written by David Stevenson.

http://itracker.heroku.com

pytracker

Python APIs for Pivotal Tracker, by Doug Coker.

http://code.google.com/p/pytracker

Tracker Hacks

Greasemonkey scripts to add functionality to Pivotal Tracker, by Peter Jaros. Add a chat panel, and import bugs with Lighthouse via drag and drop!

http://github.com/Peeja/tracker_hacks

Track-R

High level Ruby client library for the Tracker API, by Koombea.

http://github.com/koombea/Track-R

trackerh

Haskell client for Pivotal Tracker, by Wilkes Joiner.

http://github.com/wilkes/trackerh

ASP.NET integration example

Example of ASP.NET integration with the Pivotal Tracker API, contributed by Michael McKerlie to our Satisfaction user community.

http://www.getsatisfaction.com/pivotal/topics/asp_net_integration_with_api

ptMobile

Free Pivotal Tracker client for Android, by Niels Linnemann.

http://www.linnemann.me/ptmobile

SnapABug

SnapABug allows you to a widget to your site, for customers to easily send bug reports, with screenshots, directly to your Tracker project. There is a free and a paid version.

http://www.snapabug.com

Mac OS X Dashboard Widget

Simple but useful Mac OS X Dashboard widget that lets you create Pivotal Tracker stories easily, by Thomas Vie.

http://techpolcook.blogspot.com/2009/11/widget-for-pivotals-tracker.html

Trac Export

Also by Thomas Vie, a PHP script that allows you to export Trac tickets into Tracker.

http://techpolcook.blogspot.com/2009/11/php-script-trac2tracker.html

Pivotal-Tracker-IRC-bot

A Ruby-based IRC bot that lets you interact with Pivotal Tracker projects, by Doug McBride.

http://github.com/dougmcbride/Pivotal-Tracker-IRC-bot

Koombea Track-r

From Koombea, Track-r is a mobile client for Pivotal Tracker that allows you to work with your projects even when off-line. There's an iPhone and an Android version.

http://koombea.com/trackr

MediaWiki Extension: GbangaLabsPivotalTrackerTag

MediaWiki extension to embed stories from Pivotal Tracker, developed by Gbanga labs.

http://gbanga.com/labs/index.php/Extension:GbangaLabsPivotalTrackerTag

MobiTracker

Fully featured iPhone app for Pivotal Tracker, by Steven Yie, with offline support, searching, email, and more.

http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~ynie/mobiTracker/web/

Slurper and Slurper.vim

Written by our friends at Hashrocket, Slurper is a ruby script that allows you to compose stories in a plain text file and then slurp them into Pivotal Tracker through the API. Slurper.vim is a companion Vim script to provide file specific syntax highlighting and key mappings.

http://github.com/hashrocket/slurper

http://github.com/alowe/vim-slurper

Campfire activity notification script

Script to alert campfire of Pivotal Tracker activity, by Ryan Briones.

http://gist.github.com/270075

Pivotal Numbers

Replaces the fibonacci stacks in PivotalTracker.com with clearer numbers. These high contrast numbers are better for viewing/setting story estimation when viewing projects on a projector. By Ryan Caught.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/65842

tgethr email collaboration

Turn an email turn into a story in Tracker, and email discussions into story comments using tgethr, a paid email collaboration service.

http://blog.tgethr.com/post/347604800/tgethr-now-supports-pivotal-tracker

git-pivotal

A collection of git utilities to ease integration with Pivotal Tracker. By Jeff Tucker.

http://gemcutter.org/gems/git-pivotal

pivotal-tracker-api

An open source .net class library for Pivotal Tracker.

http://code.google.com/p/pivotal-tracker-api

PivotalTFS

Example of how to replicate Pivotal Tracker stories to a Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS). Contributed by Rickard Redler.

http://pivotaltfs.codeplex.com/

PTCruiser

PTCruiser is a free and open source native iphone client for Pivotal Tracker. Written by Mark Lussier.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ptcruiser/id323889807?mt=8


If you have written something you'd like to share, or know of other useful tools, let us know! We welcome suggestions for API improvements as well.