Rails - May 2006 - Radiant CMS

I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically available 
from the Subversion repository at:

   http://radiantcms.org/


What is Radiant?
----------------

Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed 
for small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a 
general purpose content management system (not a blogging engine).

Radiant features:

  * An elegant user interface

  * Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom
    tagging language (Radius - http://radius.rubyforge.org)

  * Extensible with special page-oriented plugins called behaviors

  * Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML (it''s
    easy to create other filters)

  * A Simple user management/rights system

  * Operates in two modes: dev and production - depending on the URL

  * A caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes

  * Built using Ruby on Rails (which means that extending Radiant is as
   easy as creating a new controller)

  * Radiant is licensed under the MIT-LICENSE.

  * And much more...

Radiant is the content management system that will eventually power 
Ruby-Lang.org (yes we are nearing completion on the project!). With this 
in mind I would really appreciate it if a few of you could kick the 
tires hard and make sure that Radiant is ready to go for Ruby-Lang. 
Please! Download Radiant from the Subversion repository and get this 
puppy on the road.

--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com/

Looks like a great start.  The project has a nice, intuitive interface.

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----- Original Message ----
From: John W. Long <ng@johnwlong.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
Sent: Monday, May 1, 2006 3:40:07 PM
Subject: [Rails] [ANN] Radiant CMS

I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically available 
from the Subversion repository at:

   http://radiantcms.org/


What is Radiant?
----------------

Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed 
for small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a 
general purpose content management system (not a blogging engine).

Radiant features:

  * An elegant user interface

  * Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom
    tagging language (Radius - http://radius.rubyforge.org)

  * Extensible with special page-oriented plugins called behaviors

  * Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML (it''s
    easy to create other filters)

  * A Simple user management/rights system

  * Operates in two modes: dev and production - depending on the URL

  * A caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes

  * Built using Ruby on Rails (which means that extending Radiant is as
   easy as creating a new controller)

  * Radiant is licensed under the MIT-LICENSE.

  * And much more...

Radiant is the content management system that will eventually power 
Ruby-Lang.org (yes we are nearing completion on the project!). With this 
in mind I would really appreciate it if a few of you could kick the 
tires hard and make sure that Radiant is ready to go for Ruby-Lang. 
Please! Download Radiant from the Subversion repository and get this 
puppy on the road.

--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com/
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On May 1, 2006, at 1:40 PM, John W. Long wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically  
> available from the Subversion repository at:
>
>   http://radiantcms.org/
>
> <snip>
> --
> John Long
> http://wiseheartdesign.com/
> _______________________________________________
>

John-

	I just took a walk through the code of your cms and I must say I  
like what you have done. Very nice code in there ;)

-Ezra

Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> On May 1, 2006, at 1:40 PM, John W. Long wrote:
>> I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically available 
>> from the Subversion repository at:
>>
>>   http://radiantcms.org/
> 
>     I just took a walk through the code of your cms and I must say I 
> like what you have done. Very nice code in there ;)
Thanks Ezra. I''ve enjoyed putting together a couple of domain languages
for the project. It''s really been a blast.

--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com

John W. Long wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically available 
> from the Subversion repository at:
>
>   http://radiantcms.org/
>
>
> What is Radiant?
> ----------------
>
> Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed 
> for small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a 
> general purpose content management system (not a blogging engine).
>
> Radiant features:
>
>  * An elegant user interface
>
>  * Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom
>    tagging language (Radius - http://radius.rubyforge.org)
>
>  * Extensible with special page-oriented plugins called behaviors
>
>  * Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML
(it''s
>    easy to create other filters)
>
>  * A Simple user management/rights system
>
>  * Operates in two modes: dev and production - depending on the URL
>
>  * A caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes
>
>  * Built using Ruby on Rails (which means that extending Radiant is as
>   easy as creating a new controller)
>
>  * Radiant is licensed under the MIT-LICENSE.
>
>  * And much more...
>
> Radiant is the content management system that will eventually power 
> Ruby-Lang.org (yes we are nearing completion on the project!). With 
> this in mind I would really appreciate it if a few of you could kick 
> the tires hard and make sure that Radiant is ready to go for 
> Ruby-Lang. Please! Download Radiant from the Subversion repository and 
> get this puppy on the road.
>
> -- 
> John Long
> http://wiseheartdesign.com/
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
Hi John,

    Very nice code indeed... can you please give us the working 
environment of Radiant CMS. Like what version or Ruby and Rails are you 
using can this be used using postgres. Lastly can you give me the plain 
schema of Radiant so I can just do the old style of creating a database 
in postgres and not the new rake migrate stuff. I have not touch in to 
that stuff yet. Again thanks! and more power!

Erwin Quita

Erwin Quita wrote:
> John W. Long wrote:
>> I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically available 
>> from the Subversion repository at:
>>
>>   http://radiantcms.org/
>>
>    Very nice code indeed... can you please give us the working 
> environment of Radiant CMS. Like what version or Ruby and Rails are you 
> using can this be used using postgres. Lastly can you give me the plain 
> schema of Radiant so I can just do the old style of creating a database 
> in postgres and not the new rake migrate stuff. I have not touch in to 
> that stuff yet. Again thanks! and more power!
Things are setup so that it checks out Rails 1.1.2. I''m personally
using
MySQL (various versions), but you should be able to make it run with 
other databases.

I just checked the MySQL schema in:

http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/browser/trunk/radiant/db/development_structure.sql

At the bare minimum you will need to create an Admin user after creating 
the table structure. Have a look at db/setup.rb and use script/console 
to create the user.

I am curious to know how it runs on postgres (and other databases for 
that matter). If patches are needed please don''t hesitate to create a 
ticket in Trac and submit one.

--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com/

John,

Very nice job. I like the UI a lot - very clean and friendly.

Larry
> > John W. Long wrote:
> >> I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically
available
> >> from the Subversion repository at:
> >>
> >>   http://radiantcms.org/
> >>
>
>
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I posted a patch to fix a couple of boolean mysql''isms that stopped  
it on postgresql.  It was just to small changes.  Otherwise it seems  
to run fine and the migrations work setting up the admin account.  I  
really like it so far and am thinking using it for the lab I work in  
new site.


On May 1, 2006, at 9:52 PM, John W. Long wrote:
> Erwin Quita wrote:
>> John W. Long wrote:
>>> I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically  
>>> available from the Subversion repository at:
>>>
>>>   http://radiantcms.org/
>>>
>>    Very nice code indeed... can you please give us the working  
>> environment of Radiant CMS. Like what version or Ruby and Rails  
>> are you using can this be used using postgres. Lastly can you give  
>> me the plain schema of Radiant so I can just do the old style of  
>> creating a database in postgres and not the new rake migrate  
>> stuff. I have not touch in to that stuff yet. Again thanks! and  
>> more power!
>
> Things are setup so that it checks out Rails 1.1.2. I''m personally
> using MySQL (various versions), but you should be able to make it  
> run with other databases.
>
> I just checked the MySQL schema in:
>
> http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/browser/trunk/radiant/db/ 
> development_structure.sql
>
> At the bare minimum you will need to create an Admin user after  
> creating the table structure. Have a look at db/setup.rb and use  
> script/console to create the user.
>
> I am curious to know how it runs on postgres (and other databases  
> for that matter). If patches are needed please don''t hesitate to  
> create a ticket in Trac and submit one.
>
> --
> John Long
> http://wiseheartdesign.com/
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

On 5/1/06, John W. Long <ng@johnwlong.com> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically available
> from the Subversion repository at:
>
>    http://radiantcms.org/
>
>
> What is Radiant?
> ----------------
>
> Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed
> for small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a
> general purpose content management system (not a blogging engine).
>
> Radiant features:
>
>   * An elegant user interface
>
>   * Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom
>     tagging language (Radius - http://radius.rubyforge.org)
>
>   * Extensible with special page-oriented plugins called behaviors
>
>   * Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML
(it''s
>     easy to create other filters)
>
>   * A Simple user management/rights system
>
>   * Operates in two modes: dev and production - depending on the URL
>
>   * A caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes
>
>   * Built using Ruby on Rails (which means that extending Radiant is as
>    easy as creating a new controller)
>
>   * Radiant is licensed under the MIT-LICENSE.
>
>   * And much more...
>
> Radiant is the content management system that will eventually power
> Ruby-Lang.org (yes we are nearing completion on the project!). With this
> in mind I would really appreciate it if a few of you could kick the
> tires hard and make sure that Radiant is ready to go for Ruby-Lang.
> Please! Download Radiant from the Subversion repository and get this
> puppy on the road.
>
> --
> John Long
> http://wiseheartdesign.com/
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
I''d like to chime in and say that this is the 1st cms that
I''ve demoed
and liked immediately.  My only concern is image/file management. 
There seems to be no way to upload and add a picture to a page.

--
Kyle Maxwell
Chief Technologist
E Factor Media // FN Interactive
kyle@efactormedia.com
1-866-263-3261

Kyle Maxwell wrote:
> On 5/1/06, John W. Long <ng@johnwlong.com> wrote:
>> I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically available
>> from the Subversion repository at:
>>
>>    http://radiantcms.org/
>>
>>
> I''d like to chime in and say that this is the 1st cms that
I''ve demoed
> and liked immediately.
Cool. :-)
> My only concern is image/file management. There 
> seems to be no way to upload and add a picture to a page.
Support for attachments is planned, but was not necessary for the 
Ruby-Lang site. For now, just upload images into the "public"
directory.

--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com

I''ve been looking for an opportunity to switch off of MagnoliaCMS
toward something rubyish and this may be it.

--
John-Mason Shackelford

Software Developer
Pearson Educational Measurement

2510 North Dodge St.
Iowa City, IA 52245
ph. 319-354-9200x6214
john-mason.shackelford@pearson.com
http://pearsonedmeasurement.com

Hi,

This is very good. I teach programming and I have been using wikis to
deliver my course content. But, wikis are not really a good fit and Radiant
has the potential to be better. However, I would need to have your second
generation of roles and your planned versioning for this to work for me.
This would be very important to me and I would like to join the effort if
possible.

First, is the mailing list functional yet? I have signed up for it but have
not received confirmation. Next, where should I look at applying some
effort?

Thanks for this!

-Eric

On 5/1/06, John W. Long <ng@johnwlong.com> wrote:
>
> I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically available
> from the Subversion repository at:
>
>    http://radiantcms.org/
>
>
> What is Radiant?
> ----------------
>
> Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed
> for small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a
> general purpose content management system (not a blogging engine).
>
> Radiant features:
>
>   * An elegant user interface
>
>   * Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom
>     tagging language (Radius - http://radius.rubyforge.org)
>
>   * Extensible with special page-oriented plugins called behaviors
>
>   * Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML
(it''s
>     easy to create other filters)
>
>   * A Simple user management/rights system
>
>   * Operates in two modes: dev and production - depending on the URL
>
>   * A caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes
>
>   * Built using Ruby on Rails (which means that extending Radiant is as
>    easy as creating a new controller)
>
>   * Radiant is licensed under the MIT-LICENSE.
>
>   * And much more...
>
> Radiant is the content management system that will eventually power
> Ruby-Lang.org (yes we are nearing completion on the project!). With this
> in mind I would really appreciate it if a few of you could kick the
> tires hard and make sure that Radiant is ready to go for Ruby-Lang.
> Please! Download Radiant from the Subversion repository and get this
> puppy on the road.
>
> --
> John Long
> http://wiseheartdesign.com/
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
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John-Mason P. Shackelford wrote:
> I''ve been looking for an opportunity to switch off of MagnoliaCMS
> toward something rubyish and this may be it.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on the mailing list:

http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/

--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com/

Eric Knapp wrote:
> This is very good. I teach programming and I have been using wikis to
> deliver my course content. But, wikis are not really a good fit and Radiant
> has the potential to be better. However, I would need to have your second
> generation of roles and your planned versioning for this to work for me.
> This would be very important to me and I would like to join the effort if
> possible.
> 
> First, is the mailing list functional yet? I have signed up for it but have
> not received confirmation.
The mailing list seems to be down. Let me see what I can do.
> Next, where should I look at applying some effort?
I''ve got some peculiar ideas about how versioning and permissions
should
work. It sounds like you''ve read permissions.txt in the root directory.
Do you think you could flesh that document out detailing more precisely 
how you would want it implemented, then, once the mailing list is up and 
running we can discuss it with some others on the list and determine a 
plan of action.

--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com

John W. Long wrote:
> Eric Knapp wrote:
>> First, is the mailing list functional yet? I have signed up for it but 
>> have
>> not received confirmation.
> 
> The mailing list seems to be down. Let me see what I can do.
The mailman daemon had hung. (Boy that sounds bad!) The list should be 
back up and running now. Did you receive a confirmation?

--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com/

I am looking for a senior developer for a healthcare product that is being
rewritten in Rails. Preferably someone local to Lexington, KY (but not stuck
on that). Upside potential.

Tony Chase
CEO
Consolo Services Group, LLC
(859) 400-0014 Ext. 301
www.consoloservices.com
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Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:13 PM
To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
Subject: Re: [Rails] [ANN] Radiant CMS

John W. Long wrote:
> Eric Knapp wrote:
>> First, is the mailing list functional yet? I have signed up for it but 
>> have
>> not received confirmation.
> 
> The mailing list seems to be down. Let me see what I can do.
The mailman daemon had hung. (Boy that sounds bad!) The list should be 
back up and running now. Did you receive a confirmation?

--
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http://wiseheartdesign.com/
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On 5/2/06, Tony Chase <achase@consoloservices.com>
wrote:
> I am looking for a senior developer for a healthcare product that is being
> rewritten in Rails. Preferably someone local to Lexington, KY (but not
stuck
> on that). Upside potential.
Way to threadjack, dude!

Looking good - although I see you''ve borrowed my idea of snippets ;)

I might have to borrow your idea of layouts for substruct.

Nice UI. I''ll keep an eye on this one.

- seth @ subimage
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