[Radiant] How do you migrate content between environments?

[Sean Cribbs]

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people are using import_export, 
but it's really not a stable or complete extension.  I would appreciate 
any patches that can fix the problem because I don't have time to work 
on it right now.

Sean

Richard Hurt wrote:
> 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
>>
>>     
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