# Svn: 'vendor/extensions' is not a working copy **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [July 13, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-vendor-extensions-is-not-a-working-copy/142933 "2008-07-13T18:47:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-vendor-extensions-is-not-a-working-copy/142933/1 "2008-07-13T18:47:16Z")
Whenever I try to install an extension via subversion like this for example: cd /path/to/radiant svn propset svn:externals “reorder -r881 [http://svn.radiantcms.org/radiant/tags/rel\_0-6-7/extensions/reorder/](http://svn.radiantcms.org/radiant/tags/rel_0-6-7/extensions/reorder/)” vendor/extensions/. I get this: svn: ‘vendor/extensions’ is not a working copy What is the problem? I have also tried to manually download and upload the extension via ftp, but then the rake command fails: rake aborted! uninitialized constant ApplicationController Sorry for asking this many questions, couldn’t find a google-solution - I would think that a lot of people just give up when trying this but I really like Radiant, - maybe I could help a bit with the “getting up and running quick” documentation, when I finally succeed? ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-vendor-extensions-is-not-a-working-copy/142933/2 "2008-07-13T18:56:40Z")
It looks like your radiant\_app directory is not in subversion, as far as I remember from my limited experience with subversion you need to have your Radiant application in svn (i.e. the directory containing vendor/extensions) prior to adding externals – another possibility is to just use svn export instead. I believe however the core team is dropping the svn repo completely soon, so an svn:external pointing there is probably not the best longer term solution. You might want to look into git submodules, i.e. git submodule add git://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder- extension.git vendor/extensions You can also find tar/zip files for everything on github, i.e. wget [http://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder-extension/tarball/master](http://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder-extension/tarball/master) ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-vendor-extensions-is-not-a-working-copy/142933/3 "2008-07-13T19:04:49Z")
Thank you yes a tried with git on my local system which worked fine, but i don’t think site5 (my hosting provider) supports git? when i try: git clone git://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder-extension.git reorder i get: -bash: git: command not found ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-vendor-extensions-is-not-a-working-copy/142933/4 "2008-07-13T20:36:31Z")
I recently deployed a Radiant project on a new RailsMachine VPS, and I found the best way to avoid these issues is to create your local git repository in the project, and use Capistrano’s option to copy a tarball to the server. (set :deploy\_via, :copy; set :copy\_strategy, :export) Then your server doesn’t need git at all. It’s probably past time that we create some Radiant-specific recipes for Capistrano, don’t you think? Sean ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-vendor-extensions-is-not-a-working-copy/142933/5 "2008-07-13T19:13:45Z")
Ah, yeah that could be a problem. I bet they have at least one of wget or curl installed which you can use to get the tar/zip files. 1. cd /path/to/radiant\_app/vendor/extensions 2. wget [http://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder-extension/tarball/master](http://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder-extension/tarball/master) 3. tar xzvf radiant-radiant-reorder- extension-2295abc88438aef3c1836c24c5e8825e04ef16ef.tar.gz 4. mv radiant-radiant-reorder- extension-2295abc88438aef3c1836c24c5e8825e04ef16ef reorder 5. cd …/… 6. rake radiant:extensions:reorder:migrate Or something along those lines. ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-vendor-extensions-is-not-a-working-copy/142933/6 "2008-07-13T21:09:18Z")
You have my vote for Radiant Cap recipes. -Chris ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-vendor-extensions-is-not-a-working-copy/142933/7 "2008-07-13T23:23:14Z")
I finally got the extension working (however some images to the buttons are missing?) I uploaded the tar.gz-file, unpacked it, renamed it to reorder ran: rake production db:migrate:extensions it returned: # (in /home/chainrea/radapp) == 1 AddPositionToPages: migrating # – add\_column(:pages, :position, :integer) -\> 0.0335s – Putting all pages in a default order… -\> 0.4285s == 1 AddPositionToPages: migrated (0.4623s) A warning though - it takes a minute or two before the extensions turns up in the admin - at first I thought it didn’t work after all, but then the it appeared after a short moment and a couple of manic log-outs/ins. 🙂 Now it seems radiant is beginning to “radiate” for me… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-vendor-extensions-is-not-a-working-copy/142933/8 "2008-07-13T23:26:58Z")
On 2008/07/13, at 15:23, Jan frederik Poulsen wrote: > I finally got the extension working (however some images to the > buttons > are missing?) I think you probably forgot to run the update task, cd /your/radiant\_app rake radiant:extensions:reorder:update That will copy the necessary image and script assets to your public folder. ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-vendor-extensions-is-not-a-working-copy/142933/9 "2008-07-13T23:39:09Z")
Thank you another thing one might struggle a bit with is “production” - as a RoR-newbie I forgot that I have to target the environment I’m using or else it will default to development. rake production radiant:extensions:reorder:update ---
**Author:** ![janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@janpipek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janpipek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-vendor-extensions-is-not-a-working-copy/142933/10 "2008-07-13T23:32:15Z")
Oh and you can always, cd into your radiant app and run rake -T to see what tasks are available. extensions specific tasks will all be grouped together in that list (in the radiant:extensions namespace), so it’s pretty easy to figure out what tasks a given extension needs you to run.