# Radiant installation didn't go so well

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-installation-didnt-go-so-well/108254>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [July 1, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-installation-didnt-go-so-well/108254 "2007-07-01T01:58:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joe\_Lapp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Joe\_Lapp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joe_Lapp)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-installation-didnt-go-so-well/108254/1 "2007-07-01T01:58:28Z")

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Hello, Ruby newbie here, with a small Radiant installation mess.

I installed Ruby 1.8.5 and Rails on Apache2/Debian(etch) with  
mod\_fcgid, according to these instructions:

> **[Using Ruby On Rails With Apache2 On Debian Etch](https://www.howtoforge.com/ruby_on_rails_debian_etch)**
>
> Using Ruby On Rails With Apache2 On Debian Etch 
> 
> This article shows how you can install Ruby on Rails (RoR)
> and integrate it in Apache2 on a Debi...

I have also installed Radiant 0.6.2 according to this page:  
[http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Installation](http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Installation)

I had to bootstrap both production and development databases to get  
past errors (mysql).

Current problems:

- My home page shows the About sidebar in raw Textile markup.
- Using the admin pages, the PAGES, SNIPPETS, and LAYOUTS tabs do  
not appear at the top.
- Using the admin pages, when ever I try to access the About page or  
a sample blog post, I get this error: “dependencies.rb:266:in  
`load\_missing\_constant’: uninitialized constant TextileFilter”.
- No extensions are listed, not even Textile or Markdown.
- If I try to update the extensions, I get that an unexpected nil  
object “whiel evaluating nil.initialize\_default\_admin\_tabs”.
- The vendor/extensions and vendor/plugins directories are empty.

BTW, when I did the Radiant installation and was asked to select a  
“site template,” I had no clue what ‘simple’ and ‘styled’ meant and  
couldn’t google down their meanings either. I chose ‘styled’.

Any idea what’s going on? Thanks!

~joe

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Lapp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Joe\_Lapp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joe_Lapp)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-installation-didnt-go-so-well/108254/2 "2007-07-01T08:27:51Z")

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I just noticed that the error messages are given as H1 headers.

On the About page and each blog post, I get:  
" NameError in Admin/page#edit"

When updating extensions I get:  
" NoMethodError in Admin/extensionController#update"

~joe

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Lapp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Joe\_Lapp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joe_Lapp)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-installation-didnt-go-so-well/108254/3 "2007-07-01T15:38:26Z")

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Unbelievably, this morning everything is working. I don’t believe  
I’ve touched a thing. The main difference: I closed and re-opened the  
browser.

Sorry for the monologue. I’ll take any suggestions about what went  
wrong, though. Thanks!

~joe