# \[ANN\] Radiant CMS 0.5 - Grindstone

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**Created:** [June 30, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-radiant-cms-0-5-grindstone/96598 "2006-06-30T02:47:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-radiant-cms-0-5-grindstone/96598/1 "2006-06-30T02:47:26Z")

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Last night I quietly rolled out the first official release of Radiant:  
0.5 - Grindstone. This release was a stability release mostly targeted  
toward making it easy for people to download and get started with  
Radiant. Radiant now ships with a simple setup\_database script which  
makes it easy to get up and running with one of three default templates.  
We also made it easy for people to install Radiant via Ruby Gems.

WHAT IS RADIANT CMS?

Radiant is a no-fluff content management system designed for small  
teams. It’s similar to Movable Type or Textpattern, but is more than a  
blogging engine. It’s a Web developer’s CMS with just enough features to  
make it worthwhile. We’ve intentionally left the kitchen sink out!

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](http://radius.rubyforge.org))
- Special page-oriented plugins called behaviors
- A simple user management/permissions system
- Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML  
(it’s easy to create other filters)
- 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 (which means that extending Radiant is  
as easy as any other Rails application)
- Licensed under the MIT-License
- And much more…

There’s even a live demo over on the project Web site:

[http://radiantcms.org/demo/](http://radiantcms.org/demo/)

INSTALLATION

We’ve worked hard to make it easy to install Radiant. For starters you  
can download it with Ruby Gems:

% gem install --include-dependencies radiant

Once the Radiant gem is installed you have access to the `radiant`  
command. The `radiant` command is similar to the `rails` command (if you  
are from the Rails world. It’s how you generate a new Radiant instance  
application. An instance application is an application that references  
the source code which is located somewhere else (in this case the  
Radiant gem.) So `cd` to the directory where you would like your  
instance to be installed and type:

% radiant .

Next create a database for your application and setup the appropriate  
config/database.yml file. You’ll find several examples in the config  
directory. Radiant supports MySQL, SQLite, and PostgreSQL.

Then run the `script/setup_database` command:

% script/setup\_database production

And start up the test server:

% script/server

Finally, hit the /admin/ URL and you should be off to the races. See the  
README file in the release for additional details.

If you are interested in other download options, visit the download  
page: [http://radiantcms.org/download/](http://radiantcms.org/download/).

CONTRIBUTORS

Radiant wouldn’t be possible without the help of some fine people. The  
following people have made contributions to this release:

- Matt McCray \* Paul S. \* Scott W.
- Sven Lauer \* Tristan Boniver \* Chris Corriveau
- Ryan P. \* Luis L.

Thanks guys! If you’d like to hop on the development band wagon head on  
over to our dev site ([http://dev.radiantcms.org/](http://dev.radiantcms.org/)).

SUPPORT

Perhaps the best place to get support is on the Radiant mailing list.  
There’s a crowd of people there who have been hanging around for over a  
month now. Newbie questions are welcome! To sign up, go to:

[http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/](http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/)

Enjoy!

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)  
[http://radiantcms.org](http://radiantcms.org)