[Radiant] Radiant installation didn't go so well

[Joe Lapp]

I just noticed that the error messages are given as H1 headers.

On the About page and each blog post, I get:
" NameError in Admin/page#edit"

When updating extensions I get:
" NoMethodError in Admin/extensionController#update"

~joe

On 6/30/07, Joe Lapp <joe.lapp at pobox.com> wrote:
> Hello, Ruby newbie here, with a small Radiant installation mess.
>
> I installed Ruby 1.8.5 and Rails on Apache2/Debian(etch) with
> mod_fcgid, according to these instructions:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/ruby_on_rails_debian_etch
>
> I have also installed Radiant 0.6.2 according to this page:
> http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Installation
>
> I had to bootstrap both production and development databases to get
> past errors (mysql).
>
> Current problems:
>
>   * My home page shows the About sidebar in raw Textile markup.
>   * Using the admin pages, the PAGES, SNIPPETS, and LAYOUTS tabs do
> not appear at the top.
>   * Using the admin pages, when ever I try to access the About page or
> a sample blog post, I get this error: "dependencies.rb:266:in
> `load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant TextileFilter".
>   * No extensions are listed, not even Textile or Markdown.
>   * If I try to update the extensions, I get that an unexpected nil
> object "whiel evaluating nil.initialize_default_admin_tabs".
>   * The vendor/extensions and vendor/plugins directories are empty.
>
> BTW, when I did the Radiant installation and was asked to select a
> "site template," I had no clue what 'simple' and 'styled' meant and
> couldn't google down their meanings either.  I chose 'styled'.
>
> Any idea what's going on?  Thanks!
>
> ~joe
>