# Radiant CMS

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## [Radiant equivalent to rails' mail\_to?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-equivalent-to-rails-mail-to/67435)

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**Author:** [@Patrick\_Crosby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Patrick_Crosby)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 5, 2006, 5:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-equivalent-to-rails-mail-to/67435 "2006-09-05T05:51:06Z")

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Is there a radius tag that does the equivalent of rails’ mail\_to tag? I want to encode mailto links so it is harder for spambots to harvest any email addresses. In rails, I would do the following: \<%= mail\_to(“remove…

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## [Just a small question about behaviors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-a-small-question-about-behaviors/67505)

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**Author:** [@rane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rane)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-a-small-question-about-behaviors/67505 "2006-09-04T19:15:57Z")

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http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/05/02/behaviors/ Is it necessary to register the behavior? I mean, it makes no sense if you have add that behavior and select it in the drop down box if you want to use one tag you just…

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## [Question about navigation behavior](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-navigation-behavior/67430)

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**Author:** [@rane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rane)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-navigation-behavior/67430 "2006-09-04T17:11:41Z")

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I’m using this code as navigation of my site but there’s a slight flaw. For example, when the page is one of the children of page ruby, r:here won’t be active. Any ideas?

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## [In place editing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-editing/67388)

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**Author:** [@martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-editing/67388 "2006-09-04T15:23:22Z")

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Hi. I’m very glad to see that there is a ROR based CMS project now ! Are there any plans to add (ajax based) in place editing to Radiant ? From a first look it should not be too difficult to turn a page block into its…

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## [Problems with \<r:random\> tags](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-r-random-tags/66048)

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**Author:** [@pezdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pezdude)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-r-random-tags/66048 "2006-09-04T14:46:07Z")

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Hi, I’m now having a problem with the \<r:random\> tag for inserting a random image into a snippet. I’ve looked at http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/browser/trunk/radiant/app/models/page\_context.rb where I see: \<r:r…

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## [Roadmap?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roadmap/66853)

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**Author:** [@laserwhit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/laserwhit)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roadmap/66853 "2006-09-04T14:44:02Z")

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I’m putting together a presentation on Radiant for Denver’s local ruby/rails user group, and I’d like to know if there is a more current feature roadmap than the one posted a few months ago. If anyone knows it would b…

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## [Looking for a Dev](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-a-dev/66722)

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**Author:** [@toadkicker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toadkicker)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-a-dev/66722 "2006-09-03T04:27:32Z")

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Would it be appropriate here to ask if anyone is interested in working on some Rails projects I have? Feel free to email me if so. ~~~~~~~~~~~~\*~ Todd B. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid 858-752-1459

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## [Some questions from a ROR newby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/some-questions-from-a-ror-newby/67362)

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**Author:** [@riccardo\_g](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/riccardo_g)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/some-questions-from-a-ror-newby/67362 "2006-09-03T01:29:26Z")

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Dear all first of all let me apologize if the questions contained in this email are in anyway FAQ or stupid ones … I’m programming in Ruby from a long time (at least 5 years), but I’m completely new to ROR applicat…

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## [Plugin related question](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-related-question/67343)

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**Author:** [@rane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rane)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-related-question/67343 "2006-09-02T16:56:33Z")

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I am making a plugin that displays the contents of a file given as an argument \<:r script path="/foo/bar" /\> However, when I make modifications to the .rb file (vendor/plugins/foo/lib/file.rb) where I define the tag,…

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## [Radius related problem with code\_behavior plugin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radius-related-problem-with-code-behavior-plugin/67341)

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**Author:** [@rane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rane)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radius-related-problem-with-code-behavior-plugin/67341 "2006-09-02T14:16:22Z")

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Hello, I am having following problem with third party plugin code\_behaviour. \<r:code \[lang=“ruby”\]\> \[anything\] \</r:code\> in any page in Radiant CMS outputs this error: end tag not found for start tag \`’. After goo…

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## [Static css file](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/static-css-file/67342)

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**Author:** [@rane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rane)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/static-css-file/67342 "2006-09-02T14:14:22Z")

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Constantly editing the Styles page in the admin interface is very inconvenient, so I was wondering if there’s a way to make Radiant CMS use css file found in the system?

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## [Custom status](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/custom-status/67225)

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**Author:** [@islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/islepilot)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2006, 1:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/custom-status/67225 "2006-09-02T13:50:20Z")

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I need to add a status “Archived”, so that a page with not show up in the original tree, but will show up in the archive when the user changes the status. I have easily added the status in the status.rb Model and it w…

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## [Radiant Content-Type problem on TextDrive](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-content-type-problem-on-textdrive/67270)

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**Author:** [@jake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jake)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-content-type-problem-on-textdrive/67270 "2006-09-02T03:45:57Z")

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I am a new radiant user and really love the app, simple elegent etc. I have deployed radiant to my shared textdrive hosting account running lighttpd and everything works great in firefox but when I try and pull the si…

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## [\[ANN\] Comments behaviors released](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-comments-behaviors-released/67294)

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**Author:** [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-comments-behaviors-released/67294 "2006-09-01T22:21:32Z")

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I’ve bugged John and everyone on the list enough with my questions. Now it’s time for me to share. I have implemented behaviors that allow visitor-submitted comments on pages. Please read all about and download them…

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## [Redirect hell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect-hell/67265)

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**Author:** [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect-hell/67265 "2006-09-01T19:11:07Z")

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John et al, I think I’m in the final step of creating my Commentable/CommentBucket behaviors before releasing them into the wild, but I’ve found that I’m getting into an endless redirect loop after most of my process …

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## [Re: Markdown + Smarty Pants](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-markdown-smarty-pants/67103)

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**Author:** [@df-sean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/df-sean)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-markdown-smarty-pants/67103 "2006-09-01T17:34:47Z")

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Since Textile curls quotes automatically, my first thought is to just add the SmartyPants functionality to the existing Markdown filter. Is there a good reason not to do this? Should we ship a separate SmartyPants fi…

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## [Redirecting in Radiant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirecting-in-radiant/67243)

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**Author:** [@df-sean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/df-sean)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirecting-in-radiant/67243 "2006-09-01T16:40:32Z")

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Having moved one of my sites to Radiant, I needed to implement permanent (301) redirects on some old URLs. Since I’m running under Mongrel behind Apache’s mod\_proxy (on TextDrive), I needed to do something at the Radi…

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## [Caching](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/caching/67240)

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**Author:** [@timperrett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timperrett)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/caching/67240 "2006-09-01T16:24:30Z")

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Hey all How is the caching set up in radiant? As it uses its own caching system doesn’t it, I am looking at doing something similar in another project, however probably serving HTML rather than YAML but I cant fathom …

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## [De-spamming the trouble tickets](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/de-spamming-the-trouble-tickets/67172)

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**Author:** [@straylight](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/straylight)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/de-spamming-the-trouble-tickets/67172 "2006-09-01T06:56:00Z")

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Hi all, I’m keen to help out, so I went to look at the tickets in Trac. Lots of spam. I’m keen to clean it out. What is the best way? I could Resolve as invalid. Any suggestions? Nahtan

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## [Subject: Re: Starting up radiant on textdrive](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subject-re-starting-up-radiant-on-textdrive/66990)

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**Author:** [@mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike-moscow)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subject-re-starting-up-radiant-on-textdrive/66990 "2006-08-30T20:11:54Z")

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Hi, Jake, I finally got it all figured out. I hadnt commented out the shebang line in web/public/dispatch.fcgi which wasnt allowing rails.sh to start up radiant. I’m going to try to put together a checklist of all the…

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## [Render\_tag](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/render-tag/66743)

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**Author:** [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/render-tag/66743 "2006-08-30T19:43:49Z")

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Quick question: Inside a tag definition block in my behavior, can I call render\_tag that is available to the Radius context? If so, what’s the proper syntax? I’d like to have a case where a tag can be used as a singl…

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## [Guide: Things You Shouldn't Be Doing In Rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/guide-things-you-shouldnt-be-doing-in-rails/66966)

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**Author:** [@mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike-moscow)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/guide-things-you-shouldnt-be-doing-in-rails/66966 "2006-08-30T17:53:30Z")

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Hi, I thought I would pass along this link I found. I’m no where near being a developer, but I thought YOU guys might be able to benefit from this article Guide: Things You Shouldn’t Be Doing In Rails http://glu.tton…

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## [Starting up radiant on textdrive](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starting-up-radiant-on-textdrive/66825)

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**Author:** [@mike-moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike-moscow)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starting-up-radiant-on-textdrive/66825 "2006-08-30T14:31:04Z")

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Hello All, I’m working my way through jake’s radiant to textdrive article. I have requested/recieved a littpd port. I have gone through the whole textdrive ‘how to start a rails app’ tutorial. I almost done except I’…

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## [App can't find Gem Radiant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/app-cant-find-gem-radiant/66637)

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**Author:** [@toadkicker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toadkicker)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/app-cant-find-gem-radiant/66637 "2006-08-30T11:52:46Z")

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Hello, I’ve been using Radiant and building my site using Webrick and felt it was time to switch it over to Apache. Unfortunately things weren’t so smooth. \[Sun Aug 27 19:11:23 2006\] \[warn\] FastCGI: (dynamic) server …

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## [Installing radiant on www.hostingrails.com](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-radiant-on-www-hostingrails-com/66352)

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**Author:** [@Josh\_Stockwell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Josh_Stockwell)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-radiant-on-www-hostingrails-com/66352 "2006-08-30T00:10:57Z")

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I’m following http://www.hostingrails.com/forums/wiki\_thread/1 and http://www.hostingrails.com/forums/wiki\_thread/2 I have not been able to run \>radiant to do a fresh install. Anybody got any ideas??

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## [New breadcrumbs tab for use in \<title\>?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-breadcrumbs-tab-for-use-in-title/66823)

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**Author:** [@pezdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pezdude)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 29, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-breadcrumbs-tab-for-use-in-title/66823 "2006-08-29T16:49:26Z")

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Hi, I’m wondering how I would go about implementing a new breadcrumb Radius tag, so I can do something like … .... in my XHTML layouts.

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## [Regarding jake's Article on getting radiant up and running o](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regarding-jakes-article-on-getting-radiant-up-and-running-o/66819)

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**Author:** [@Mike\_Moscow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mike_Moscow)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 29, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regarding-jakes-article-on-getting-radiant-up-and-running-o/66819 "2006-08-29T16:41:25Z")

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Jake’s guide is clear enough but I seem to have problems connecting to the database. I’m on a mac (10.4.7) I have figured out how to SSh directly into my shared account using the BASH terminal. I get as far as install…

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## [Creating new tabs in the admin interface?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-new-tabs-in-the-admin-interface/66808)

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**Author:** [@Jake\_Liddell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jake_Liddell)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 29, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-new-tabs-in-the-admin-interface/66808 "2006-08-29T14:59:15Z")

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Hi all, The website Iâ??m building has a traditional three-column layout, but Radiant only has a â??bodyâ? and â??sidebarâ? tab on the standard pages installed by default. Iâ??d like to create a â??sidebar-2â? ta…

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## [Bug or feature?!](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-or-feature/66660)

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**Author:** [@Jake\_Liddell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jake_Liddell)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 29, 2006, 11:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-or-feature/66660 "2006-08-29T11:10:37Z")

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Hi all, Hereâ??s a weird one. If I include the words â??mkdir radiantâ? anywhere in a page, even between tags, the page wonâ??t save â?? it returns: Precondition Failed The precondition on the request for the U…

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## [Caching of CSS files](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/caching-of-css-files/65892)

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**Author:** [@Nathan\_Donaldson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nathan_Donaldson)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 29, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/caching-of-css-files/65892 "2006-08-29T02:39:11Z")

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Hi all, I have been looking at my logs as I am testing radiant and have noticed that the CSS files seem to take longer to generate than the HTML files. Am I doing something wrong? Here is a snippet from my logs, you …

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