[Radiant] basic newbie questions: Updating radiant and installing

[Loren Johnson]

> <code> svn co http://dev.radiantcms.org/svn/radiant/tags/rel_0-5-2/ ~/
> radiant
>   ~/radiant/radiant/bin/radiant ~/web/ <code />
> ...
> The second line in the command I'm not really sure...
> did It save the actual radiant app in the radiant folder ( ~/radiant/
> radiant/bin/radiant ) and then create an instance in the  web
> directory? (  ~/web/  ) so that my website is running in instance
> mode? Or did I just download the full source of radiant and then made
> another copy for the web directory?

I believe you generated a copy of Radiant in instance mode. You would 
have to use the --unpack option on the radiant command to get a full 
app. However in ~/radiant you should have a full install.

> I'm going to have to install oliver's gallery and search behaviors
> and I'm confused as to where I have to do this or if its even
> possible on Textdrive. Do I install the plugin into my (  ~/web/  )
> directory or the (  ~/radiant/radiant/bin/radiant ) directory?

You probably want to create another instance of Radiant with the 
--unpack parameter:

~/radiant/radiant/bin/radiant ~/web_full --unpack

Then copy the behaviors you mention into the ~/web_full/vendor/plugins 
directory.

> In the future when I want to upgrade radiant to 1.0, etc. Do I svn
> another copy to my (  ~/radiant/radiant/bin/radiant ) directory and
> then do an --upgrade from my  (  ~/web/  ) directory? Or will have i
> have to copy all the files over to (  ~/web/  )  again and import the
> DB?

You shouldn't need to import the DB, you can always point your 
database.yml to your existing/previous db and then when you upgrade let 
the migrations take care of any "upgrading".

I too find it confusing how to manage a clean upgrade path with Radiant 
(or any full-scale Rails app which I also want to extend). My backup 
plan is to 1) install a new release fresh, 2) point the database.yml to 
the existing database name, 3) then run a "rake db:migrate" to catch it 
up with any structural changes, and finally, 4) copy in any of my own or 
other behavior plugins from my old install to the new vendor/plugins 
directory.


Hope that helps.

Loren



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