# Installing extensions **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [July 11, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-extensions/142802 "2008-07-11T17:49:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-extensions/142802/1 "2008-07-11T17:49:17Z")
I’m on a mac. Radiant is located in two places on my machine: 1. As “my app” - my specific site: ~/Sites/ and 1. As “the generator” Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/radiant-0.6.7 Wher are extensions supposed to be installed? In my specifik site of the “original” place? ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-extensions/142802/2 "2008-07-11T17:58:52Z")
For add on extensions you want the path to your running Radiant application, such as, “~/Sites/my app/vendor/extensions” ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-extensions/142802/3 "2008-07-11T18:07:40Z")
Jan frederik Poulsen wrote: > Wher are extensions supposed to be installed? In my specifik site of the > “original” place? Gems are system wide, although they can be installed locally by a non-privileged user. You should never touch system wide gems, unless you really, really know what you’re doing. And even then, better choices can be made. Your app should hold all of its extensions in the local ./vendor/extensions directory. In case of uncertainty, [wiki.radiantcms.org](http://wiki.radiantcms.org) may be helpful. ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-extensions/142802/4 "2008-07-11T18:18:48Z")
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 17:49 +0200, Jan frederik Poulsen wrote: > Wher are extensions supposed to be installed? In my specifik site of the > “original” place? First of all, It really isn’t necessary to set up your Radiant sites in the ~/Sites/ directory. That is only for your files(html, etc.)/apps (php, etc.) that are being served directly by your local install of Apache. Radiant apps, like all Rails apps, can be anywhere on your hd. You run them independently from your local Apache instance started from teh “Sharing” tab in System Prefs. And Radiant apps don’t need to be named “Radiant,” they can be anything “Goober”, “Bad\_client”, etc. Your radiant-0.6.7 gem is the brains behind your Radiant apps. Once you have created a Radiant project, the gem handles the heavy lifting. Once you have generated a Radiant project you will have a directory named “vendor” where you will find your “plugins” and “extensions” directories. As you might have guessed, the vendor/extensions directory is where you install extensions. So if you have a project called “radiant” in your “~/Sites” directory, your extensions would go in “~/Sites/radiant/vendor/extensions”. If you look at the list of third party extensions on the [radiantcms.org](http://radiantcms.org) website, the “page\_attachments” extension has a link to the installation procedure for that extension. I find it helpful sometimes to read through it for correct syntax for installing and updating extensions. There was a lot of talk recently on reworking the wiki, and I think the topic of installing extensions should be one of the first things added to it. I hope that helps. ~Nate ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-extensions/142802/5 "2008-07-11T19:02:11Z")
Jan frederik Poulsen wrote: > [http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/2380/Picture\_2.jpg](http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/2380/Picture_2.jpg) If I remember correctly, this is a known problem that happens only when you’re running Radiant 0.6.7 in Development mode. Is that how you’re using it? Cheers, Mohit. 7/12/2008 | 1:01 AM. ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-extensions/142802/6 "2008-07-11T18:44:01Z")
Thank you very much. I got working now. Except for this funky error. So my next question would probably be how to remove extensions, but I’ll try and look it up in the wiki. ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-extensions/142802/7 "2008-07-11T19:08:03Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > There was a lot of talk recently on reworking the wiki, and I think the > topic of installing extensions should be one of the first things added > to it. > > I hope that helps. Nate, there is an entry on the ‘Summer Reboot’ wiki site called ‘Installing your first extension (PageAttachments?)’ I think that is where this part should be done. That said, I like this post of yours - just wondering where it should go into the wiki! Cheers, Mohit. 7/12/2008 | 1:06 AM. ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-extensions/142802/8 "2008-07-12T01:26:29Z")
Mohit S. wrote: > Jan frederik Poulsen wrote: > > > [http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/2380/Picture\_2.jpg](http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/2380/Picture_2.jpg) > > If I remember correctly, this is a known problem that happens only when > you’re running Radiant 0.6.7 in Development mode. Is that how you’re > using it? > > Cheers, > Mohit. > 7/12/2008 | 1:01 AM. Yes I think i’m running it in development if this has to do with the “\_development” / “\_production” stuff So do i just make a \_production database and “re”-rake to it then? ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-extensions/142802/9 "2008-07-12T02:01:22Z")
Well found out it was easy - i just upgraded to the latest edge release - which solves the issue. Now I would like to se drag’n’drop reordering like in frogCMS - which ironically should be behind radiant in this regard, since frog is a reimplementation in php. Is it difficult to pull off? I would think that the behaviours “Sortable” and Draggables/Droppables in scriptaculous would enable radiant to do this almost for free, since the framework is already heavily used in Rails? > **[GitHub - madrobby/scriptaculous: script.aculo.us is an open-source JavaScript...](https://github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous)** > > script.aculo.us is an open-source JavaScript framework for visual effects and interface behaviours. - GitHub - madrobby/scriptaculous: script.aculo.us is an open-source JavaScript framework for vis... ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-extensions/142802/10 "2008-07-12T02:24:49Z")
I’ve done drag-and-drop with table rows and it’s not pretty. I’m not sure how frogCMS does it. This is on the roadmap, but not for a while. Sean