Radiant 0.7.0 - Intaglio Release (final)

Posted by Sean Cribbs on Saturday, February 07, 2009 | |

Radiant 0.7.0 “Intaglio” culminates six months of refactoring and bug-
fixing by a dedicated team of contributors. The major milestone crossed
with this release is that the admin controllers have been refactored
toward Rails’ RESTful design. In addition, these changes are of note:

A beautiful new database template by Paul du Coudray is included.
Rails 2.1.2 is included.
Radiant is now compatible with Ruby 1.8.7.
The extension installer is more helpful, and more friendly with git.
The caching mechanism supports nginx-style X-Accel-Redirect headers and ETags.
RSpec and RSpec-Rails are no longer included, but use gem dependencies.
Extensions can now use timestamped migration numbers.
Updated gems of RedCloth and BlueCloth (RDiscount) will be preferred over the pre-packaged versions if installed.

There were over 80 changes to this release! A big thank you goes to all
of the sprint weekend attendees and hack night contributors. Well done!

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 “0.7.0” 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