# Radiant Edge Compatibility **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317 "2009-01-22T00:23:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/1 "2009-01-22T00:23:56Z")
Today I’ve committed some fixes that improve Radiant’s 1.8.7 compatibility and make the specs compatible with RSpec 1.1.12. Check out edge and enjoy! I suspect we’ll have another 0.7.0 release candidate (or maybe even a release) soon. Sean ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/2 "2009-01-22T01:54:34Z")
I’m nearly completely lost when trying to build something using Radiant because I don’t understand the tags like \, what they are for and why we have to use them. Can anyone point me to another source of information, because the documentation is so sparse. My installation is working fine. Susan Chouinard Website Manager Marketing Division Clark Realty Corporation Phone: 808.887.1902 Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid URL: [http://www.clarkhawaii.com](http://www.clarkhawaii.com) ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/3 "2009-01-22T02:03:56Z")
Install Help script/extension install help [http://ext.radiantcms.org/extensions/5-help](http://ext.radiantcms.org/extensions/5-help) > **[GitHub - saturnflyer/radiant-help-extension: Help documentation extension for...](https://github.com/saturnflyer/radiant-help-extension/tree/master)** > > master It provides help documentation in the Radiant interface, and some in the help/help\_extension.rb file And read the Wiki [http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Summer\_Reboot](http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Summer_Reboot) See section 3 “Writing your Own Extension” Radiant parses the content and finds things like \ and does something with them. The Help extension provides a list of all tags that you have installed and on what types of pages they may be used Just install it and go to [http://yourserver/admin/role\_help/developer](http://yourserver/admin/role_help/developer) Aloha ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/4 "2009-01-22T02:34:21Z")
Not sure why. Github seems to have connection problems every once in a while. Could you download it? [http://github.com/​saturnflyer/​radiant-help-extension/​](http://github.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%80%B9saturnflyer/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%80%B9radiant-help-extension/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%80%B9) zipball/​master ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/5 "2009-01-22T02:28:30Z")
Thanks Jim. I tried to obtain the repository but it didn’t work: git clone git://github.com/saturnflyer/radiant-help-extension.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/clark/www/careers/vendor/extensions/radiant-help-extension/.git/ fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection refused) fetch-pack from ‘git://github.com/saturnflyer/radiant-help-extension.git’ failed. Susan Chouinard Website Manager Marketing Division Clark Realty Corporation Phone: 808.887.1902 Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid URL: [http://www.clarkhawaii.com](http://www.clarkhawaii.com) > -----Original Message----- > From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/6 "2009-01-22T02:52:30Z")
There is no install task for Help. Just untar it, drop it in vendor/ extensions and restart Radiant ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/7 "2009-01-22T03:04:12Z")
Nope, even restarted the web server and nothing. When I did try to use Rake something was looking for mysql.sock in the wrong location. Susan Chouinard Website Manager Marketing Division Clark Realty Corporation Phone: 808.887.1902 Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid URL: [http://www.clarkhawaii.com](http://www.clarkhawaii.com) ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/8 "2009-01-22T02:43:08Z")
Got the tarball but I’m starting to think I’m just in over my head. I’m not even sure how to launch the install task for this using rake. Susan Chouinard Website Manager Marketing Division Clark Realty Corporation Phone: 808.887.1902 Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid URL: [http://www.clarkhawaii.com](http://www.clarkhawaii.com) ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/9 "2009-01-22T03:08:18Z")
Susan Chouinard wrote: > I’m nearly completely lost when trying to build something using Radiant > because I don’t understand the tags like \, what they are for > and why we have to use them. > > Can anyone point me to another source of information, because the > documentation is so sparse. > It’s from my site, but does this help at all: > [http://www.onghu.com/radiant\_summer/radiant\_intro\_1.html](http://www.onghu.com/radiant_summer/radiant_intro_1.html) It does briefly touch on how content is laid out in Radiant and where Radius tags come in. Cheers, Mohit. 1/22/2009 | 10:07 AM. ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/10 "2009-01-22T03:10:39Z")
So there is no new tab in the interface reading “Help”? What rake command were you trying? ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/11 "2009-01-22T03:17:42Z")
No, no new tab. Was I supposed to rename the extension directory? I tried renaming it to saturnflyer but that didn’t work so I deleted that and went back to the original from the tarball. rake production db:migrate:extensions Could not load extension from file: saturnflyer-radiant-help-extension-f70e5af5365813665dce5bd5f58a53d450da2e89\_extension. #\ Susan Chouinard Website Manager Marketing Division Clark Realty Corporation Phone: 808.887.1902 Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid URL: [http://www.clarkhawaii.com](http://www.clarkhawaii.com) ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/12 "2009-01-22T03:27:03Z")
Ah. Sorry. If “script/extension install help” worked, it would have done that. rename it to “help” You do not need to migrate after that. Just restart. Most extensions seem to follow the convention that they are named radiant-extension\_name-extension on github. You’d just want to take extension\_name as the directory name. ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/13 "2009-01-22T08:29:04Z")
On 22 Jan 2009, at 00:53, Susan Chouinard wrote: > I’m nearly completely lost when trying to build something using > Radiant > because I don’t understand the tags like \, what they > are for > and why we have to use them. > > Can anyone point me to another source of information, because the > documentation is so sparse. There is a series of articles about Radius on the wiki. It is incomplete, but quite thorough on the material that it covers: [http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Introduction\_to\_Radius](http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Introduction_to_Radius) [http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Tags\_that\_insert\_content](http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Tags_that_insert_content) [http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Tags\_that\_change\_the\_scope](http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Tags_that_change_the_scope) [http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Conditional\_tags](http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Conditional_tags) This being a wiki, feel free to correct any errors if you find them. Cheers, Drew ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-edge-compatibility/158317/14 "2009-01-22T03:35:51Z")
Got it to work. Thank you!! I’ll check out the Summer Reboot too. And thanks to Mohit, as well - I will check out your Intro to Radiant page!! Hopefully I can get moving on this. Got a site to build, pronto. Susan Chouinard Website Manager Marketing Division Clark Realty Corporation Phone: 808.887.1902 Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid URL: [http://www.clarkhawaii.com](http://www.clarkhawaii.com)