Radiant 0.7.0-RC1 Available

Posted by Sean Cribbs on Sunday, December 07, 2008 | |

I know I promised a 0.6.10 release candidate, but John and I feel we’ve been too slavish to our roadmap and that the changes in the latest version of Radiant represent a significant departure from 0.6.9, so today I’m releasing 0.7.0-RC1. This release is intended for developers only, specifically with the intent to start updating extensions to some of the new internal APIs. You can get the gem in two ways:

Download directly.

Install from GitHub:

gem install radiant-radiant --source=http://gems.github.com

These are the most significant changes:

Admin controllers are now “RESTful”, i.e. they conform to the Rails convention for resources.
Rails 2.1.2 is included.
RSpec and RSpec-Rails are no longer packaged and are marked as gem dependencies. You need 1.1.11 or newer.
There are now generators for mailers and migrations in extensions. All generators but the instance one (radiant command) now have specs.
We have added some database indexes to increase performance.
Radius tags can now access request parameters and URL helpers directly.
The packaged markdown_filter and textile_filter will use RDiscount and later versions of RedCloth, if the respective gems are installed. Otherwise, they fall back to the packaged versions, which have been moved into the extensions.

Some routes have been removed:

page_index_path
page_edit_path
page_new_path
homepage_new_path
page_remove_path
page_add_part_path
page_children_path
tag_reference_path
filter_reference_path
clear_cache_path

You can read the full history on github

If you’re looking to contribute (whether or not you can make it to the sprint next weekend in Raleigh), here are some things that need to be done in the code:

Convert scenarios over to the new dataset plugin. Hopefully this will fix the one failing controller spec that results from a loading-order issue.
Move a bunch of SiteController specs over into integration specs.
Write integration specs for the rest of the Admin UI.
Convert some test_helpers into RSpec matchers where appropriate, factor dependencies on them out of the existing specs.
Write more comprehensive specs for the new Admin::ReferencesController.
Find a way that we can avoid packaging the autotest_matchers, but reference and load them directly from the RSpec gem.
Factor out some of our packaged libraries into gem dependencies, but modify the freeze Rake task to freeze them into vendor as well.