# Radiant command without the gem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-command-without-the-gem/70834>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [October 3, 2006, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-command-without-the-gem/70834 "2006-10-03T11:20:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ac8455/32.png) [@islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/islepilot)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-command-without-the-gem/70834/1 "2006-10-03T11:20:52Z")

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I remember John mentioning that once you had a full instance of  
Radiant installed, you could then use the “radiant” command to  
install further instances, just like using the gem. He said this  
would be also useful if you had changed the version of Radiant you  
were using, which is my case, now. Has anyone actually done this? I  
jsut gave it a quick whirl, but couldn’t get it to work.

Keith B.  
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**Author:** ![islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ac8455/32.png) [@islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/islepilot)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-command-without-the-gem/70834/2 "2006-10-03T15:57:47Z")

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Keith B. wrote:

> I remember John mentioning that once you had a full instance of Radiant  
> installed, you could then use the “radiant” command to install further  
> instances, just like using the gem. He said this would be also useful if  
> you had changed the version of Radiant you were using, which is my case,  
> now. Has anyone actually done this? I jsut gave it a quick whirl, but  
> couldn’t get it to work.

I’ve done it in testing. 🙂 How did it fail?

The way it works is you execute the radiant command in the bin dir of  
the install you want to share code with. So if I have one project  
running in application mode (i.e. it’s fully extracted) in the project1  
dir and I want to create project2 which references the code in project1,  
I do it like this:

% pwd  
/Workspaces

% ls  
project1

% project1/bin/radiant project2

… copies files to project2 …

% ls  
project1 project2

% cat project2/config/instance.yml  
Radiant Root: /Workspaces/project1

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

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**Author:** ![islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ac8455/32.png) [@islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/islepilot)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-command-without-the-gem/70834/3 "2006-10-04T01:11:03Z")

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Thanks John, I was just typing the path incorrectly. That works  
perfectly.

Keith B.  
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