# Radiant 0.6 RC1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [February 4, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423 "2007-02-04T08:47:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/1 "2007-02-04T08:47:58Z")
After a hard day’s work the core team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Radiant 0.6 RC1! Lots of changes have gone into this release—too many to enumerate them all at this time of night. Suffice it to say that the focus of this release has been the new extension system. We’ll make sure there is a complete list of new features when this becomes the official release, but for now we want to submit it to you for feedback and testing. To give it a whirl: 1. Download the gem: [http://johnwlong.com/downloads/radiant-0.6.0rc1.gem](http://johnwlong.com/downloads/radiant-0.6.0rc1.gem) 2. Install it using: $ gem install radiant-0.6.0rc1.gem 3. Use the Radiant command to create a fresh project: $ radiant -d sqlite3 path/to/your/project 4. Edit config/database.yml to taste. 5. Run the new bootstrap rake task: $ cd path/to/your/project $ rake production db:bootstrap 6. Configure and start it up on your favorite Web server: $ script/server -e production One aspect of this new release that we would especially like feedback on is that the new Radiant gem now contains it’s own copy of Rails. Since we have been binding each release of Radiant to a specific Rails version we thought it prudent to go ahead and package Rails with Radiant. This has the side benefits of simplifying dependencies and making booting easier. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 10:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/2 "2007-02-04T10:04:02Z")
John, First, w00t! 🙂 Second, I personally have been deleting the vendor/rails directory since the release of Rails 1.2.1, so would prefer not to have the rails directory, but agree it might simplify the install for newbies on shared hosting (where they don’t have 1.2.1 yet). Question: Is there any difference in init/run time with a Rails app running Rails from vendor/rails? I’d hope it was the same, but surely the full gem install could cache more stuff? Cheers, Adam ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/3 "2007-02-04T18:47:59Z")
Okay all! Sure you’re loving me by this point. I actually have something constructive to say this time! 🙂 First off: How to install to dreamhost #1: Install personal rubygems as per [http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/RubyGems](http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/RubyGems) #2: Use the following to install some of the gems (Seems dreamhost gem dependencies break occasionally) gem install redcloth gem install bluecloth gem install radius #3: Install radiant as previously mentioned #4: Follow instructions to install radiant. Example command would be like this: radiant ~/ --ruby=/usr/bin/ruby #5: Go into your .gems/cache folder and copy radiant-0.6.0rc1.gem to radiant-0.6.0.gem (See below for comment) #6: Go into your vendor directory on your webdir and unpack radiant (See below for comment) cd ~//vendor gem unpack radiant #7: Rename radiant-0.6.0 to radiant #8: Change up your config/environment.rb to uncomment the line which says ENV[‘RAILS\_ENV’] ||= ‘production’ – You may also need to add the following line at the top: ENV[‘RADIANT\_ROOT’] = ‘//vendor/radiant’ #9: Finish up the database.yml and perform the rakes and such as suggested by the radiant installer. When you do go to launch the website the first time, be patient. DreamHost’s FastCGI is tempermental and DreamHost’s autoprocess killer may tank your fastcgi the first few times until it learns that it isn’t hanging. If you want to help with the process, enter this into the bottom of your dispatch.fcgi: (Provided from numerous sources.) class RailsFCGIHandler private def frao\_handler(signal) dispatcher\_log :info, “asked to terminate immediately” dispatcher\_log :info, “frao handler working its magic!” restart\_handler(signal) end alias\_method :exit\_now\_handler, :frao\_handler end If you want to make sure it is dreamhost and the FastCGI implementation being funny, go into public/.htaccess, uncomment AddHandler cgi-script .cgi and go down and change the line which says: RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] to RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L] If this works (It will be slow,) it is DreamHost’s proc killer being strange. If you can’t get it launched the first time, do a killall -9 dispatch.fcgi a few times until it says theres no more processes named dispatch.fcgi, and then try again. I know this is a bit of a mickey mouse workaround, but until DreamHost catches on that the dispatch.fcgi isn’t evil afterall, its what you have to do. To show proof of working, go to [http://test.bladedthoth.com](http://test.bladedthoth.com) ``` COMMENTS! ``` Okay, now that I’ve been using gems for a while and fighting with them, I’ve come to find a few things that may help for the developers. Problems that aren’t commonly seen but are showing up. The gem being called radiant-0.6.0rc1.gem causes issues. gems still apparently heavily relies on the file naming being dead-on to what it needs. While it will install it, it gets itself confused on the process of use. All the gems show up now EXCEPT for radiant in rails, because it’s looking for radiant-0.6.0.gem and it doesn’t find it. This is part of why custom installs of rubygems has a time with it. Something, somewhere gets itself horridly confused and will not pick up the gems properly when the instance of radiant can find itself for loading; You get the error of ‘Can not find radiant-0.6.0’ even though when I write up a script to list gems it shows it. Somehow the gempack process that is being done works fine mostly, but for some reason some versions of gem and the way they are set up have a hell of a time picking it up. I hope this can help isolate the issue. ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 7:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/4 "2007-02-06T07:39:02Z")
On 2/4/07, John W. Long [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 1. Download the gem: > [http://johnwlong.com/downloads/radiant-0.6.0rc1.gem](http://johnwlong.com/downloads/radiant-0.6.0rc1.gem) > > 2. Install it using: > $ gem install radiant-0.6.0rc1.gem John, the gem must be renamed to 0.6.0 because “rc1” is not a valid versioning of rubygems. Also, reverting from custom copy/upgrade script to generator based for instance mode is the best solution (for finding identical files). > ``` > $ script/server -e production > > ``` > > One aspect of this new release that we would especially like feedback on > is that the new Radiant gem now contains it’s own copy of Rails. Since > we have been binding each release of Radiant to a specific Rails version > we thought it prudent to go ahead and package Rails with Radiant. This > has the side benefits of simplifying dependencies and making booting easier. I agree on this, this simplifies deployment on servers, as long you run multiple instances, if you start unpacking (gem unpack), vendor/rails code duplication will stress your disks. Great news Radiant Team! Excellent work on the Extension system! 🙂 ## – Luis L. Multimedia systems Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/5 "2007-02-08T17:54:44Z")
how do I install it on a shared host that doesn’t have the gem installed? is there a way to freeze the gem to /vendor? 2007/2/6, John W. Long [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/6 "2007-02-06T19:04:50Z")
Adam S. wrote: > Question: > Is there any difference in init/run time with a Rails app running > Rails from vendor/rails? I’d hope it was the same, but surely the > full gem install could cache more stuff? It’s probably a little slower with RubyGems, but I haven’t run any performance metrics on it. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/7 "2007-02-08T21:04:04Z")
Oliver B. wrote: > how do I install it on a shared host that doesn’t have the gem > installed? is there a way to freeze the gem to /vendor? Eventually there will be. For now use the Radiant command on your local box to extract the files that you need to run it in instance mode and then use subversion to checkout the mental branch into /vendor/radiant. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/8 "2007-02-08T17:59:44Z")
On 2/8/07, Oliver B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > how do I install it on a shared host that doesn’t have the gem > installed? is there a way to freeze the gem to /vendor? You could ssh to your host, set GEM\_PATH to some folder in your home directory (~/.gems) and the install radiant gem. Later just unpack it into the folder you want (prior chdir into that folder). $ gem unpack radiant HTH, > > – > > Post: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > > Search: [http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/](http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/) > > Site: [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) ## – Luis L. Multimedia systems Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/9 "2007-02-19T05:17:26Z")
If installing your own local RubyGems on DreamHost, shouldn’t you install a local Ruby? or no? I’ve personally struggled to get Radiant going on DH!!! Always a BlueCloth dependency error. Says not installed. But it’s there, PATHs are set. Since then, deleted all. Maybe I’ll try again. Would be nice to have a full, detailed, step-by-step for DH and Radiant, starting from nothing. ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/10 "2007-02-19T14:02:36Z")
John J. wrote: > If installing your own local RubyGems on DreamHost, shouldn’t you > install a local Ruby? or no? > I’ve personally struggled to get Radiant going on DH!!! Always a > BlueCloth dependency error. Says not installed. But it’s there, PATHs > are set. Since then, deleted all. Maybe I’ll try again. > Would be nice to have a full, detailed, step-by-step for DH and Radiant, > starting from nothing. I’m not having any trouble running Radiant on DreamHost. But I think I’m running in application mode, not instance mode. All I had to do was get latest of Mental and upload it to my host. (make sure fastcgi is turned on) Then create a symbolic link from http to the public directory in radiant. Then everything except the database should be working. If you’re still having problems, try messaging “igotimac” on [irc.freenode.net#radiantcms](http://irc.freenode.net#radiantcms) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/11 "2007-02-19T14:09:45Z")
John J. wrote: > If installing your own local RubyGems on DreamHost, shouldn’t you > install a local Ruby? or no? > I’ve personally struggled to get Radiant going on DH!!! Always a > BlueCloth dependency error. Says not installed. But it’s there, PATHs > are set. Since then, deleted all. Maybe I’ll try again. > Would be nice to have a full, detailed, step-by-step for DH and Radiant, > starting from nothing. Take a look at [http://www.bladedthoth.com/news/2007/02/04/installing-radiant-0-6-0-rc1-on-dreamhost/](http://www.bladedthoth.com/news/2007/02/04/installing-radiant-0-6-0-rc1-on-dreamhost/) and try those steps out. I run my site on DreamHost. RC1 is a lot easier than 0.5.2 to get running at least. If you still have problems with bluecloth being detected, you have a few options. Easiest may be going into /vendor and typing gem unpack bluecloth then change the name of the directory made to ‘bluecloth’ (without the ''s) - the directory will usually pop up as ‘bluecloth-\<#\>.\<#\>.\<#\>’, so easiest way would be something like this: mv bluecloth\* bluecloth Let me know if you need more help or if my steps work well. ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/12 "2007-02-19T17:20:13Z")
On 2/19/07, Oliver B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Check that public/dispatch.cgi or .fcgi uses the correct shebang! line for dreamhost: [http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby\_on\_Rails](http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby_on_Rails) Also check the .htaccess rewrite rules (that point to fcgi instead of .cgi). ## – Luis L. Multimedia systems Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/13 "2007-02-19T17:12:10Z")
hello again, so followed the suggestion to install my own rubygems and then install the radiant gem. got everything going, on webrick the admin came up fine. but when I tried to use dreamhost’s standard apache/fcgi, the application didn’t start, getting the application error “Rails application failed to start properly” and nothing on the logs. i then tried running it on cgi, but got the same problem. what could be causing this? 2007/2/19, Andrew K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/14 "2007-02-19T19:03:26Z")
Hi Luis, > Check that public/dispatch.cgi or .fcgi uses the correct shebang! line > for dreamhost: I did, tried both #!/usr/bin/ruby and #!/usr/bin/ruby1.8 and even #!/usr/bin/env ruby also double checked permissions, got 755 on /public and all the dispatch files > Also check the .htaccess rewrite rules (that point to fcgi instead of .cgi). I did, here’s what I have: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] I doubled checked everything on that wiki entry, I believe 😛 ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/15 "2007-02-19T17:47:01Z")
> tried to use dreamhost’s standard apache/fcgi, the application didn’t > start, getting the application error “Rails application failed to > start properly” and nothing on the logs. What do your logs say? Check both the standard Dreamhost-provided log directory as well as radiant logs. ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/16 "2007-02-19T19:06:27Z")
the radiant/rails logs are empty, and dreamhost one has this: FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server “/path/to/app/public/dispatch.fcgi” 2007/2/19, Jacob B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 6:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/17 "2007-02-20T06:56:35Z")
still getting the problem, but I’m managing to use radiant with webrick for now. it’s working fine, with the asset manager extension. another question, unrelated: how do I change the header text on the admin interface? is it possible to edit it as to have my client’s company’s name instead? many thanks, Oliver 2007/2/19, Oliver B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-0-6-rc1/84423/18 "2007-02-20T17:57:26Z")
> another question, unrelated: how do I change the header text on the > admin interface? is it possible to edit it as to have my client’s > company’s name instead? Unless I am thinking of something else you are, go ahead and check out the “config” database table. On 2/19/07, Oliver B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 2007/2/19, Oliver B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > > Radiant mailing list – Alexander H. [http://www2.truman.edu/~ah428](http://www2.truman.edu/~ah428)