Radiant 0.8.0 - Asterism Release

Posted by Sean Cribbs on Sunday, June 14, 2009 | |

Radiant 0.8.0 “Asterism” features a brand new and more compliant caching
mechanism based on Rack::Cache, and numerous bugfixes and small enhancements.
Also included are:

An extensive integration suite using Cucumber and Webrat
Rails 2.3.2 (previously 2.1.2)
Highline 1.5.1
Haml 2.0.9

Many thanks to our contributors and committers for their contributions.

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 “0.8.0” 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