[Radiant] How do you migrate content between environments?

[Richard Hurt]

Sean,

I was just looking at the
import_export<http://dev.radiantcms.org/svn/radiant/tags/rel_0-6-3/extensions/import_export/>extension
and I think it would do almost everything I needed, if it worked
properly.  I tried it on my development machine and it looks like it hangs
when trying to build the "users" table.  I was getting a NIL error after it
had cleared the table.

My migration plan would then be to export the DB using import_export and
store it in SVN right next to everything else (public/, images/, etc.)  That
way I could always get back to a certain version of my web-site.

First and formost is getting the extension to work properly.  I have very
limited Ruby (and Rails) experience and I don't think I can debug it
myself.  :(  I would love to but I'm just now learning how to use Radiant
tags and debugging Rails is hard (or at least I don't know how yet :).

Thanx!
  Richard

On Oct 31, 2007 10:35 AM, Sean Cribbs <seancribbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Matt,
>
> You're essentially talking about an audit trail which you can replay.
> Sounds like something that would fit deep within the guts of
> ActiveRecord but would not necessarily have to be related to Radiant.
> However, you would only have to capture changes (i.e. INSERT, SELECT,
> DELETE).  You would still have to have some way of locking your
> production database.
>
> Richard, you should look into Joyent Slingshot -- Radiant has been
> ported to this mini-platform that allows offline editing and syncing
> with a live database.  It may be the solution you're looking for.
>
> Sean
>