# Newbie - How does one learn to use Radiant?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-how-does-one-learn-to-use-radiant/87872>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [March 6, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-how-does-one-learn-to-use-radiant/87872 "2007-03-06T15:57:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![ntk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/48db29/32.png) [@ntk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ntk)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-how-does-one-learn-to-use-radiant/87872/1 "2007-03-06T15:57:47Z")

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I am very excited about someday being able to use your Radiant CMS  
system and see you have a very active forum of people asking specific  
questions. Are there any tutorial type pages available or a book  
published on this topic?  
I would be very grateful for a ‘recommended reading list’ or pointers  
to where I might learn how to produce a site in Radiant.  
I am making good progress learning to write Ruby on Rails database web  
applications…I just don’t see how Rails fits into Radiant?  
I am grateful for any hints that you may offer to learn this more.  
Thank you,  
David  
dak AT itracker DOT com

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**Author:** ![ntk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/48db29/32.png) [@ntk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ntk)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-how-does-one-learn-to-use-radiant/87872/2 "2007-03-06T16:50:33Z")

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Hi David,

There used to be some great presentations out there. However, all my  
links  
to them are dead.

In particular the following used to be excellent an excellent  
presentation:  
[http://blog.brandalism.com/assets/2006/10/4/radiant\_cms.pdf](http://blog.brandalism.com/assets/2006/10/4/radiant_cms.pdf)  
by Nathan W…

Perhaps Nathan can place the presentation back somewhere? (He is still  
on  
this list.) I’ll also put my copy online this (European) evening. If you  
want I can mail it directly.

Regards,  
Erik.

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**Author:** ![ntk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/48db29/32.png) [@ntk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ntk)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-how-does-one-learn-to-use-radiant/87872/3 "2007-03-06T22:09:32Z")

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Hi David,

You can download the presentation here:  
[http://omelet.zapto.org/radiant\_cms.pdf](http://omelet.zapto.org/radiant_cms.pdf)

Regards,  
Erik.

David K. wrote:

> Are there any tutorial type pages available or a book  
> published on this topic?

–  
Erik van Oosten

> **[Day to day stuff](http://day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/)**
>
> Experiences from a hard core JVM programmer. Likes to keep things simple.