# Uninstalling an extension and go live with sqlite3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [December 21, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-an-extension-and-go-live-with-sqlite3/123871 "2007-12-21T16:19:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisbotor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-an-extension-and-go-live-with-sqlite3/123871/1 "2007-12-21T16:19:38Z")
Hi everyone, I was wondering if there was a way to remove an extension from radiant. I have both the copy/move and the reorder installed and only the reorder appears in the admin console. Until there is a way for those to co-exist, I would like to get rid of the reorder _without_ having to destroy and recreate the content of my database. Any help on this would be appreciated. Also we are going live with our new radiant site on new year, i’m getting a little nervous and wonder if using sqlite3 as the database back end is a wise choice and will cause performance degradation. Once live the site will rarely be modified. Thank you all and merry christmas. ---
**Author:** ![chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisbotor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-an-extension-and-go-live-with-sqlite3/123871/2 "2007-12-21T16:27:51Z")
Christian, Simply delete the vendor/extensions/reorder directory and you’ll be good to go. Sean ---
**Author:** ![chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisbotor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-an-extension-and-go-live-with-sqlite3/123871/3 "2007-12-21T16:30:47Z")
Sean: what about any database changes? If he wants to clean up, won’t he have to migrate down? Also, I seem to remember those extensions modifying the Admin JS or CSS files (although this was awhile ago)? Will he have to restore those too? -Andrew ---
**Author:** ![chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisbotor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-an-extension-and-go-live-with-sqlite3/123871/4 "2007-12-21T16:29:01Z")
Re: your SQLite question: I don’t have any benchmarks to back this up, but I would assume that Radiant’s caching mechanism should take a good deal of the load off of the database, especially if modifications are rare. The default behavior is for cache expiry to be 5 minutes, but you could make that even longer. ---
**Author:** ![chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisbotor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-an-extension-and-go-live-with-sqlite3/123871/5 "2007-12-21T16:31:57Z")
(Ooops, when I said “(although this was awhile ago)”, I meant to say “(although this might have been changed)”. ---
**Author:** ![chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisbotor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-an-extension-and-go-live-with-sqlite3/123871/6 "2007-12-21T16:37:49Z")
Yes, but it’s not absolutely necessary. Reorder adds the ‘position’ column, but it can safely be ignored if he doesn’t want to migrate down. Reorder doesn’t touch the stock JS/CSS files, however, it does dynamically modify the interface using Shards. Sean ---
**Author:** ![chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisbotor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-an-extension-and-go-live-with-sqlite3/123871/7 "2007-12-21T16:35:28Z")
I don’t think there’s an easy way to undo files that have been overwritten, but if you want copy-move to prevail, you should be able to delete the reorder extension and then do this: |rake RAILS\_ENV=production radiant:extensions:copy\_move:install| That should take care of copying back the files that copy-move likes… Cheers, Mohit. 12/21/2007 | 11:34 PM. ---
**Author:** ![chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisbotor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-an-extension-and-go-live-with-sqlite3/123871/8 "2007-12-21T19:57:11Z")
Hi Christian, You can set a number of options on the ReponseCache in config/environment.rb. Look at the end – (in mine at least) :directory and :logger are set. You can add one for :expiry\_time there. Check the documentation by ResponseCache#initialize in radiant/app/models/response\_cache.rb for more details. -Andrew ---
**Author:** ![chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chrisbotor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisbotor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-an-extension-and-go-live-with-sqlite3/123871/9 "2007-12-21T18:17:59Z")
Hi there, deleting the reorder directory did the trick nicely. Thank you guys. How can I increase the caching timeout? Thank you On 12/21/07, Sean C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > he have to migrate down? > > > > > > I was wondering if there was a way to remove an extension from > > > > little nervous and wonder if using sqlite3 as the database back end is > > > > Site: [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) > > > > * * * > > 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) – Christian B. Director of IT [Warmlyyours.com](http://Warmlyyours.com), inc. Phone: (800) 875-5285 ext.800 Fax: (847) 550-2600 Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid WarmlyYours Honeywell authorized licensee 2 Corporate Dr., Suite 100 Long Grove, Illinois 60047 Visit the WarmlyYours website at: [www.warmlyyours.com](http://www.warmlyyours.com) 24/7 Installation Support • Lifetime Technical Assistance • Free Design Service This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company.