[Radiant] [ANN] Radiant CMS 0.5.1 - Gemdust

[John W. Long]

I am pleased to announce the release of Radiant 0.5.1 Gemdust:

   http://radiantcms.org/download/

This is primarily a security update. A critical security vulnerability 
has been discovered in Rails 1.1.5. It is therefore highly recommended 
that you upgrade immediately. Apart from the Rails 1.1.5 upgrade, this 
release includes a number of small enhancements. From the change log:


WHAT IS RADIANT CMS?

Radiant is a no-fluff content management system designed for small 
teams. It's similar to Movable Type or Textpattern, but is more than a 
blogging engine. It's a Web developer's CMS with just enough features to 
make it worthwhile. We've intentionally left the kitchen sink out!

Radiant features:

  * An elegant user interface
  * The ability to arrange pages in a hierarchy
  * Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a
    custom tagging language (Radius: http://radius.rubyforge.org)
  * Special page-oriented plugins called behaviors
  * A simple user management/permissions system
  * Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML
    (it's easy to create other filters)
  * 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 any other Rails application)
  * Licensed under the MIT-License
  * And much more...

There's even a live demo over on the project Web site:

   http://radiantcms.org/demo/


CHANGELOG

* Upgraded Rails to 1.1.5

* Added basic support for upgrades to the `radiant` command

* Gem now includes the .htaccess file (this should make Apache users
   happier)

* Updated icon for layouts

* Migrations are now repaired so that you can run `rake migrate` to
   create the initial database. (The recommended method is still
   `script/setup_database`, but enough people had complained about this
   that I felt it was in the general interested to fix it.)

* When you collapse a branch in the admin page tree view and move to
   another tab the collapsed status is now saved so that when you return,
   the collapsed status is preserved. Also the status of collapsed
   branches is preserved when collapsing and expanding parent nodes.

* Fixed documentation problem in response_cache.rb

* Fixed problem with timezones on fixtures causing tests to fail in
   Japan

* Fixed a problem with an error being thrown when the <r:context /> tag
   was rendered with the inherit attribute set to true and the page part
   did not exist


INSTALLATION

We've worked hard to make it easy to install Radiant. For starters you 
can download it with Ruby Gems:

% gem install --include-dependencies radiant

Once the Radiant gem is installed you have access to the `radiant` 
command. The `radiant` command is similar to the `rails` command (if you 
are from the Rails world. It's how you generate a new Radiant instance 
application. An instance application is an application that references 
the source code which is located somewhere else (in this case the 
Radiant gem.) So `cd` to the directory where you would like your 
instance to be installed and type:

% radiant .

Next, create a database for your application and setup the appropriate 
config/database.yml file. You'll find several examples in the config 
directory. Radiant supports MySQL, SQLite, and PostgreSQL.

Then run the `script/setup_database` command:

% script/setup_database production

And start up the test server:

% script/server

Finally, hit the /admin/ URL and you should be off to the races. See the 
README file in the release for additional details.

If you are interested in other download options, visit the download 
page: http://radiantcms.org/download/.


UPGRADE

To upgrade an existing installation, update the gem and execute the 
following command in the directory where you have Radiant installed:

% radiant --upgrade .

If you have problems during the upgrade, please let us know on the 
mailing list.


CONTRIBUTORS

Radiant wouldn't be possible without the help of some fine people. The 
following people have made contributions to this release:

* Daniel Shepherd         * Paul Smith               * Bodhi Philpot

Thanks guys! If you'd like to hop on the development band wagon head on 
over to our dev site (http://dev.radiantcms.org/).


SUPPORT

Perhaps the best place to get support is on the Radiant mailing list. 
There's a crowd of people there who have been hanging around for many 
moons now. Newbie questions are welcome! To sign up, go to:

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


Enjoy!

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