radiant

Welcome to Radiant

Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a general purpose content management system (not just a blogging engine).

Radiant features:

• An elegant user interface
• The ability to arrange pages in a hierarchy
• Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom tagging language (Radius: http://radius.rubyforge.org)
• A simple user management/permissions system
• Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML (it's easy to create other filters)
• An advanced plugin system
• Operates in two modes: dev and production depending on the URL
• A caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes
• Built using Ruby on Rails
• And much more...

License

Radiant is released under the MIT license and is copyright (c) 2006-2009 John W. Long and Sean Cribbs. A copy of the MIT license can be found in the LICENSE file.

Installation and Setup

Radiant is a traditional Ruby on Rails application, meaning that you can configure and run it the way you would a normal Rails application.

See the INSTALL file for more details.

Installation of a Prerelease

As Radiant nears newer releases, you can experiment with any prerelease version.

Install the prerelease gem with the following command:

$ gem install radiant --prerelease

This will install the gem with the prerelease name, for example: ‘radiant-0.9.0.rc2’.

Upgrading an Existing Project to a newer version

• Update the Radiant assets from in your project:

  $ rake radiant:update

• Migrate the database:

  $ rake production db:migrate

• Restart the web server

Development Requirements

To run tests you will need to have the following gems installed:

gem install ZenTest rspec rspec-rails cucumber webrat nokogiri sqlite3-ruby

Support

The best place to get support is on the mailing list:

http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/

Most of the development for Radiant happens on Github:

http://github.com/radiant/radiant/

The project wiki is here:

http://wiki.github.com/radiant/radiant/

Enjoy!

-- The Radiant Dev Team http://radiantcms.org