Radiant 0.6.9 - Etch Release (Bugfixes)

Posted by Sean Cribbs on Friday, August 01, 2008 | |

Radiant 0.6.9 “Etch” fixes bugs present in the 0.6.8 release, namely:

The inherit attribute on <r:unless_content> now correctly defaults to false.
Strange stack overflow and class-loading errors no longer occur in development mode.
The radiant:freeze:edge task will now correctly freeze without the TAG, BRANCH, or REVISION options.
config/environment.rb will be correctly updated when running the radiant:update:configs task.
You will no longer receive random “authenticity token” errors when using the cookie session store (the default).
script/extension will have the executable bit set on Unix-like filesystems.

It also adds one feature:

<r:random> will now accept dynamically generated options.

For example, this snippet will generate a randomly selected link to a child page:

 <r:random:children:each:option:link />

Many thanks to Jim Gay (who also suggested the release name), Andrew Vonderluft and Mark Yoon who helped diagnose bugs and apply fixes to this release.

Installation

To install use the gem command (with ‘sudo’ as necessary):

$ gem install radiant

Upgrading an existing project/site

1. Change the RADIANT_GEM_VERSION constant in config/environment.rb to “0.6.9” or remove it altogether.

2. Update the Radiant assets in your project:

rake radiant:update

3. Copy your customizations back into config/environment.rb, if necessary.

4. Migrate the database:

rake production db:migrate

5. Restart the server

Creating a new project/site

1. Invoke the radiant command with your desired database driver:

$ radiant -d sqlite3 my_project

2. Bootstrap the database:

$ cd my_project
$ rake db:bootstrap

3. Startup the server and try it out!

$ script/server