# Radiant CMS

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## [Problem running setup\_database](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-running-setup-database/76054)

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**Author:** [@Tom\_Clark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tom_Clark)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 22, 2006, 10:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-running-setup-database/76054 "2006-11-22T10:40:14Z")

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Hi all, This looks like a great project. I’m looking forward to working with it, if I can get the first bit to go right… Here’s my problem - am trying to set up the database. Have set up my database and configured i…

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## [Setting up Radiant on Textdrive](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-radiant-on-textdrive/76550)

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**Author:** [@Mike\_Moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mike_Moscow)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 22, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-radiant-on-textdrive/76550 "2006-11-22T02:51:45Z")

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Does anyone have a copy of jake’s(fourhats.com) article on setting up radiant on textdrive? He seems to have removed it and I could really use those instructions. Thanks

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## [Bring values from database](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bring-values-from-database/76807)

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**Author:** [@john-anes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john-anes)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 21, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bring-values-from-database/76807 "2006-11-21T14:45:08Z")

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Hi, i am very new to ROR, and hoping to convert my organizations web-site which is in .php format to a radiant cms on the local machine, and managed to get it work for static contents, but the problem is… on a partic…

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## [Dynamic values from database to radiant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dynamic-values-from-database-to-radiant/76812)

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**Author:** [@john-anes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john-anes)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 21, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dynamic-values-from-database-to-radiant/76812 "2006-11-21T12:39:26Z")

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Hi, i am very new to radiant, and hoping to convert my organizations web-site which is in .php format to a radiant cms on the local machine, and managed to get it work for static contents, but the problem is… on a p…

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## [Page\_part\_types multiple uploads](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-part-types-multiple-uploads/68058)

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**Author:** [@islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/islepilot)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [November 21, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-part-types-multiple-uploads/68058 "2006-11-21T12:28:36Z")

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I don’t know if anyone else is using this, but dror’s multiple upload type is exactly what I need for a client’s site that should have been done on Monday. Except I can’t make it work. The initial upload goes great, I…

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## [Can't get the mailer behavior to work](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-the-mailer-behavior-to-work/76681)

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**Author:** [@jonathan2000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonathan2000)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [November 21, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-the-mailer-behavior-to-work/76681 "2006-11-21T11:56:29Z")

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Hi Radiant list people, I’m new here! First I have to say I was looking for a Rails CMS and I first tried Mephisto: it tries do a lot more like media buckets and things but it’s a real pain in the ass to setup and to …

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## [Database setup problem](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/database-setup-problem/76794)

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**Author:** [@Charles\_McKnight](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Charles_McKnight)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 21, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/database-setup-problem/76794 "2006-11-21T06:03:29Z")

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Hi All, I’m new to using Radiant although I’ve been doing some things in Rails for a bit. When I set up a test project to learn how to use Radiant, I tried to use the MySQL database (I’ve been using it for a while as …

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## [Featured post (semi brute-force)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/featured-post-semi-brute-force/76790)

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**Author:** [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 21, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/featured-post-semi-brute-force/76790 "2006-11-21T05:01:19Z")

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Hey guys, I found a way to make pages to be “featured.” That is, post or groups of post that will remain atop the rest. It’s a semi brute force approach and requires access to the DB; however an incremental step none…

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## [Images directory](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/images-directory/76774)

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**Author:** [@johnf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnf)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 21, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/images-directory/76774 "2006-11-21T04:11:13Z")

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Hello, Just getting started with Radiant and running it on my local machine. I’m curious as to where I should create my images directory? What are folks doing about this… Also, I’m not missing some sort of image up…

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## [Problem with 'commentable'; was "Re: RadiantCMS, Maple Leaf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-commentable-was-re-radiantcms-maple-leaf/76549)

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**Author:** [@robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robert)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 20, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-commentable-was-re-radiantcms-maple-leaf/76549 "2006-11-20T14:46:14Z")

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\-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 28-okt-2006, at 13:47, Sean C. wrote: It has that already, albeit a somewhat kludgy implementation. Check out Commentable on the wiki under ThirdPartyBehaviors. S…

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## [Re: Radiant on eApps](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-radiant-on-eapps/76453)

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**Author:** [@Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Brian_Sam-Bodden)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 19, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-radiant-on-eapps/76453 "2006-11-19T03:19:58Z")

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Michael, Thanks. I’m still not getting things rolling. I have 2 apps running on my Mac using Locomotive. One of them being Radiant. eApps preinstall rails on under the “html” directory which only led to confusion. Ba…

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## [Error Trying to Use script/console to Create Pages](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-trying-to-use-script-console-to-create-pages/76346)

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**Author:** [@Radiant\_List](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Radiant_List)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 17, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-trying-to-use-script-console-to-create-pages/76346 "2006-11-17T19:10:58Z")

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Hello Radiant Folk! I’m a Radiant neophyte with a little bit of Rails experience. Thank you so much for making Radiant such an elegant, usable and slick CMS, I’m very excited about using it for some upcoming projects…

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## [Featured Post](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/featured-post/76055)

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**Author:** [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 15, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/featured-post/76055 "2006-11-15T16:48:33Z")

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Alright, Here’s what I’ve done so far: Migrated my DB so that the page\_parts table has a boolean (and int, really) field called isfeatured, default to 0 (false). Tried to add a “Featured” behavior (with little succes…

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## [Cloning a page/Page Templates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cloning-a-page-page-templates/76049)

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**Author:** [@Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Brian_Sam-Bodden)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 15, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cloning-a-page-page-templates/76049 "2006-11-15T16:20:26Z")

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I was wondering if there is a quick way to clone a page in Radiant or if this is a planned feature? It would be nice to have a “clone” button next to the “add child” and “remove” buttons. In the site that I’m building …

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## [\<r:navigation\> Accessing Page Parts](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/r-navigation-accessing-page-parts/75901)

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**Author:** [@Phillippe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phillippe)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 14, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/r-navigation-accessing-page-parts/75901 "2006-11-14T21:52:03Z")

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I have been fighting with creating a navigation which accesses a page part from the looped list of urls rather than the usual \<r:title\>, \<r:url\> … So instead of using \<r:title\> I have created a page part named alt\_tit…

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## [Error Trying to Use script/console to Create Pages](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-trying-to-use-script-console-to-create-pages/75981)

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**Author:** [@Radiant\_List](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Radiant_List)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 14, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-trying-to-use-script-console-to-create-pages/75981 "2006-11-14T21:03:56Z")

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Hello Radiant Folk! I’m a Radiant neophyte with a little bit of Rails experience. Thank you so much for making Radiant such an elegant, usable and slick CMS, I’m very excited about using it for some upcoming projects…

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## [What happened to the language\_redirect\_behavior.rb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-happened-to-the-language-redirect-behavior-rb/75910)

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**Author:** [@Lionel\_Mestre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lionel_Mestre)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 14, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-happened-to-the-language-redirect-behavior-rb/75910 "2006-11-14T16:00:45Z")

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I was planning to use that behavior for a multilingual site as describe in the howto wiki but I noticed the behavior was removed from radian in rev 80. Is there another way to get the same feature ? thanks lionel

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## [Database setup fails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/database-setup-fails/75865)

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**Author:** [@johnf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnf)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/database-setup-fails/75865 "2006-11-13T23:10:54Z")

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I saw this problem in the archives and was wondering if anyone ever resolved it. I get this error after the /script/setup\_database production /command. Server is running Ubuntu. Thanks. Creating tables… – drop\_tabl…

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## [\[mental\] problem starting the mental branch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mental-problem-starting-the-mental-branch/75703)

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**Author:** [@keltia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keltia)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mental-problem-starting-the-mental-branch/75703 "2006-11-13T19:19:55Z")

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Am I the only where the first connection to mongrel on the mental branch results in the following? \*\* Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3001 \*\* Starting Rails with production environment… /Volumes/Users/www/rron/…

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## [Adding "extended" content to existing page?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-extended-content-to-existing-page/75678)

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**Author:** [@Brian\_Capouch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Brian_Capouch)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-extended-content-to-existing-page/75678 "2006-11-13T18:21:36Z")

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Newb here. Doing my best. I’ve spent many hours trying to figure this one out, so far w/o success. Is there any way to “extend” an article once it’s written. By that, I mean to show only the first part of it and let…

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## [Setting up Radiant on textdrive - article is down](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-radiant-on-textdrive-article-is-down/75798)

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**Author:** [@mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike-moscow)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-radiant-on-textdrive-article-is-down/75798 "2006-11-13T16:25:11Z")

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Does anyone have an offline copy of the “Setting up Radiant on Textdrive” Article by Jake at fourhats.com, all the content that was on his site has been replaced by “lorem ipsum” if anyone has a copy I would be thrill…

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## [Make a Google sitemap.xml with Radiant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/make-a-google-sitemap-xml-with-radiant/75797)

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**Author:** [@Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giovanni_I)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/make-a-google-sitemap-xml-with-radiant/75797 "2006-11-13T16:11:07Z")

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I’ve edited this Howto http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/wiki/HowToMakeASiteMap, adding a simple way to get a standards compliant sitemap.xml to submit to Google. Let me know if it works for you and feel free to edit…

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## [GET params through Radiant page?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/get-params-through-radiant-page/75699)

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**Author:** [@roa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roa)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/get-params-through-radiant-page/75699 "2006-11-13T00:27:38Z")

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Hi guys, It is possible to access GET parameters passed in the url of a Radiant page? For example, I’m making a contact page, and instead of making multiple enquiry forms (sales, support, general, etc), it would be g…

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## [Table of contents snippet help](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/table-of-contents-snippet-help/75657)

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**Author:** [@ambitiouslemon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ambitiouslemon)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 12, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/table-of-contents-snippet-help/75657 "2006-11-12T22:57:28Z")

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I’ve been trying to make a simple Table of Contents snippet that would create a table of contents for a FAQ system where questions fall into categories and each category and question is a page in the admin interface (…

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## [Mailer\_behavior\_test](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailer-behavior-test/75458)

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**Author:** [@Todd\_McGrath](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Todd_McGrath)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 12, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailer-behavior-test/75458 "2006-11-12T22:23:38Z")

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Hi Everyone! First post and wouldn’t you know it - it’s probably a simple, rookie, nuby, etc. type of question. I have searched and read quite a bit before posting. Trying to debug why the mailer\_behavior isn’t work…

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## [Parent tag?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parent-tag/100619)

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**Author:** [@jay-levitt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jay-levitt)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [November 11, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parent-tag/100619 "2006-11-11T22:15:53Z")

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Any reason this shouldn’t be part of page\_context? It’s incredibly handy for nav. define\_tag 'parent' do |tag| tag.locals.page = page.parent tag.expand end

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## [Solution for installing Radiant in a subdirectory](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solution-for-installing-radiant-in-a-subdirectory/75462)

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**Author:** [@Roydon\_Gyles-Bedfor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Roydon_Gyles-Bedfor)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 10, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solution-for-installing-radiant-in-a-subdirectory/75462 "2006-11-10T00:42:59Z")

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My set up: Radiant is running under mongrel with the prefix flag. --prefix /sub/dir This makes /admin work (example.com/sub/dir/admin). (This also works when Apache is proxying to mongrel, and mongrel has the prefix f…

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## [Radiant gets some /. treatment](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-gets-some-treatment/75295)

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**Author:** [@bluetrust](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bluetrust)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 8, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-gets-some-treatment/75295 "2006-11-08T22:36:37Z")

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Hello- I just noticed that the ruby-lang site (powered by Radiant) got on /. which we all know creates lots of requests. See: I checked in on the ruby-lang site and it seems to be serving pages up quite nicely. See…

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## [Problems with search\_behavior](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-search-behavior/74746)

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**Author:** [@p0pnfresh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/p0pnfresh)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 8, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-search-behavior/74746 "2006-11-08T17:05:41Z")

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Hi, I’ve just installed Oliver’s search\_behavior via svn. However, I don’t understand how to implement it. Can somebody please provide a clearer example on how to do this. I’ve copied and pasted Oliver’s example in a …

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## [Search Behavior](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-behavior/75246)

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**Author:** [@p0pnfresh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/p0pnfresh)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 8, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-behavior/75246 "2006-11-08T13:59:00Z")

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Hi, I’m using Oliver’s search behavior and it works fine for me. This is the code for the body. I’m using the parent tag in there so the result pages appear in context to where they reside. I’m also using \<r:unles\_co…

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