# What's new in Radiant 0.6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [April 18, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348 "2007-04-18T16:30:49Z")\ **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:** [April 18, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/1 "2007-04-18T16:30:49Z")
I’ve collected information about all the changes to Radiant in the last 250+ commits and summarized them on my blog. Please read: [http://seancribbs.com/tech/2007/04/18/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6](http://seancribbs.com/tech/2007/04/18/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6) 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:** [April 19, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/2 "2007-04-19T03:45:23Z")
Andrew: neat site, loads quick too ---
**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:** [April 19, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/3 "2007-04-19T03:38:23Z")
Yep. You heard right. With your help, I’ve brought [http://www.bladedthoth.com/](http://www.bladedthoth.com/) online with a whole new design and under Radiant 0.6.0rc2. It runs very well; The caching seems to work better IMO under 0.6.0 and a lot less tempermental to set up on Dreamhost (Though it STILL requires modifications of environment.rb and some trickery on the behalf of the custom rubygems install.) I’ve been messing with this behind the scenes for the better part of a month now to get inline with my design desires as well as with the new Radiant. What better time to do this than now as 0.6.0 is about to be released (Or is it… Hrm… Maybe I should have waited. Heh. 🙂 ) Anyways, check it out and let me know how it looks please. My visitors love it (I push about 500+ unique visitors a day right now and climbing) and I hope you enjoy it too. Nothing that pushes the envelope like some of what others are doing here. I’m glad I made the choice of Radiant over all other CMSes out there. [http://www.bladedthoth.com/](http://www.bladedthoth.com/) Andy (BladedThoth) ---
**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:** [April 19, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/4 "2007-04-19T03:58:24Z")
I’m new to Radiant. About one month studing it. I think that the suport of extensions is THE thing that makes 0.6 release a milestone in the project. Last week a had a talk about Rails development in FISL 8.0 (Internacional Free Software Conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil) and I think thats my next talk will be about Radiant and Radiant extesions… based on your talk. Will make me happier if I can help you make Radiant better in next releases. Congratulations for the good work. Sylvestre ---
**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:** [April 19, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/5 "2007-04-19T04:18:26Z")
I was sitting here thinking; While I will never be slashdotted (Or similar violent surge scenarios), there is a good chance that while Radiant gains traction, that someone somewhere will end up being on the blunt end of a slashdotting. Now, I’ve been brainstorming on ideas for Radiant to attempt to incorporate some level of slashdotting protection, and some I feel could be fairly easily incorporated into extensions (Though I’m not quite daring enough to try to build an extension yet…) Idea A: Pre-Designed ‘Thin’ site and auto-switchover With this idea, someone would have one or multiple pre-designed layouts which are essentially stripped-down versions of their sites which then be applied to the pages much like how layouts are applied now. The extension would prebuild the entire set of pages upon a ‘Cache Clear.’ – This may slow down your site, but if you suspect you may have got a top-notch article or getting popular enough to be targetted by slashdot or other social bombarding, may save your butt. As soon as the extension detects in some form of either extreme-accelerated increase in visitors per second or from common ‘sources’ of the slashdot effect, it immediately switches over to the cached version and pulls Radiant out as much as possible from any interaction/updates which may cripple the process even worse. Idea B: Ability to ‘cache’ a full-site in a different directory in html format (Including the ability to do the above as well.) Many hosts (Mine included) have auto-failover services where if some reason your main install tanks or your bandwidth is accelerating at a maddening pace, it will allow your site to roll over to another directory structure altogether. The ability to have Radiant build a full set of html files which work the same was as your site would in a separate site may again be able to save some face when the slash comes for you. Idea C: Ability to totally disable pages or force a redirect to a specific page. Okay, you know you’ve JUST been slashdotted and you already see the traffic coming (Or better yet, Idea A kicks in on its own,) You want to be able to (or let A decide) to be able to disable an entire set of pages except the targeted page and possibly a main home page with some RSS feeds or similar if someone tries to visit any specific page outside of what has been slashdotted (IE:- We’re sorry, we’re in the middle of being slashdotted at this link - Here’s some RSS feeds for the future.). This would be handy in deed to minimize amount of ‘wandering’ damage to your site, taking you totally down, while hopefully retaining some of the slashdot visitors for future visits as well by providing them a little extra. There should be a quick and easy (AND fast) to be able to do this. Okay, I had this more refined in my head, but hopefully the picture is pretty clear. I feel that a site’s worst nightmare is being slashdotted into hell, and while I don’t know if a Ruby on Rails site or Radiant can stand up to it, but it’d be nice to be prepared. Andy (BladedThoth) ---
**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:** [April 19, 2007, 6:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/6 "2007-04-19T06:31:33Z")
> I was sitting here thinking; While I will never be slashdotted (Or > similar violent surge scenarios), there is a good chance that while > Radiant gains traction, that someone somewhere will end up > being on the > blunt end of a slashdotting. Now, I’ve been brainstorming on The wikipedia page says that the slashdot affect is somewhere from ‘several hundred through to several thousands’ requests a minute. Radiant caching is much simplier and faster than rails caching, and my benchmarking of a cached radiant page suggests to me that radiant on my server should be able to deal with somewhere around 5000 hits/minutes. I probably wouldn’t trust it past 500 hits/second, but I’m pretty sure that my adsl connection would probably be hosed before radiant would be, so serving it up with raw apache wouldn’t help me. Do you have enough bandwidth that the app will be your bottleneck (or conversely, running it on slow enough a server)? Do you really expect a 5000 hits/minute traffic surge? (running ab against pages of various sizes): With splitting of content from data: 296 bytes 114.18 [#/sec] (mean) 1198 bytes 113.63 [#/sec] (mean) 10200 bytes 106.94 [#/sec] (mean) 100202 bytes 82.09 [#/sec] (mean) 1000204 bytes 23.87 [#/sec] (mean) Using mod\_xsendfile: 296 bytes 111.72 [#/sec] (mean) 1198 bytes 111.66 [#/sec] (mean) 10200 bytes 113.44 [#/sec] (mean) 100202 bytes 102.71 [#/sec] (mean) 1000204 bytes 52.12 [#/sec] (mean) And for comparison, serving html directly with apache: 296 bytes 822.34 [#/sec] (mean) 1198 bytes 811.40 [#/sec] (mean) 10200 bytes 787.08 [#/sec] (mean) 100202 bytes 592.11 [#/sec] (mean) 1000204 bytes 196.89 [#/sec] (mean) Dan. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2007, 11:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/7 "2007-04-19T11:28:46Z")
Hi Sean, On 18 Apr 2007, at 15:29, Sean C. wrote: > I’ve collected information about all the changes to Radiant in the > last > 250+ commits and summarized them on my blog. Please read: > > [http://seancribbs.com/tech/2007/04/18/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6](http://seancribbs.com/tech/2007/04/18/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6) That’s a really informative article, thanks for putting it together. Jon ---
**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:** [April 20, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/8 "2007-04-20T00:23:12Z")
Jim G. wrote: > lost. > I agree with you Jim, and would accept a patch that fixes this. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.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:** [April 19, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/9 "2007-04-19T23:38:08Z")
Nice job on the updates. I’m very happy to see optimistic locking. Before submitting a ticket, I wanted to check with the list to see if the optimistic locking is working the way everyone expects. If a page has been edited, it warns you of the problem, but it wipes your changes and displays what is in the database. In my mind, it should warn you, but not remove any change that you made. My worry is that person1 could spend time editing some particular text, and while they are doing that, person2 goes in and fixes a typo. After hitting save person1 sees the error, but all her work is lost. -Jim ---
**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:** [April 20, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/10 "2007-04-20T00:54:16Z")
> If a page has been edited, it warns you of the problem, but it wipes > your changes and displays what is in the database. In my mind, it > should warn you, but not remove any change that you made. It warns you, and displays the changes that you just made… The changes are there, it’s just that you have no way to save them - you need to copy them out to somewhere else and then reload the page and try again. (at least, that’s how I wrote it to work - intention and implementation may differ) Dan. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/11 "2007-04-20T04:51:29Z")
The new Ruby site runs on Radiant, and was slashdotted, with (absolutely) no apparent ill-effects. [http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/11/11/ra/](http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/11/11/ra/) > **[The Ruby Way - Slashdot](https://books.slashdot.org/story/06/11/08/1539259/the-ruby-way)** > > Tim Hunter writes "Hal Fulton's The Ruby Way, Second Edition doesn't try to be the only book a Ruby programmer needs. It tries to be a book every serious Ruby programmer needs, and it succeeds. The Ruby Way is a book about programming with Ruby, the... Also, Radiant already does B) as I understand it. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/12 "2007-04-20T00:39:13Z")
On 4/19/07, Jim G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > My worry is that person1 could spend time editing some particular > text, and while they are doing that, person2 goes in and fixes a > typo. After hitting save person1 sees the error, but all her work is > lost. Without diffs and/or merges, someone always has to lose their work 😕 ---
**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:** [April 20, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/13 "2007-04-20T14:16:50Z")
> implementation may differ) > > Dan. In my instance, it doesn’t show the changes I just made, it shows the changes that were made to the database (by someone else); the changes I made are lost. Dan, do you have time to look into this? I’m no ruby/rails expert yet, but I’m happy to help. I’m going to familiarize myself with the code… -Jim ---
**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:** [April 23, 2007, 8:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-radiant-0-6/92348/14 "2007-04-23T08:18:37Z")
> In my instance, it doesn’t show the changes I just made, it > shows the > changes that were made to the database (by someone else); the > changes > I made are lost. > > Dan, do you have time to look into this? I’m no ruby/rails expert > yet, but I’m happy to help. I’m going to familiarize myself with the > code… Just checked in a change that should fix this. Dan.