[Radiant] Fails when using Gallery in brand new Radiant setup

[Thomas Watson Steen]

I'm having a problem with the Gallery extension:

When setting up a new site most deployment related rake tasks stop  
working if your Radiant app contains the Gallery extension.

This happends because of the first statement in the GalleryItem class  
(vendor/extensions/gallery/app/models/gallery_item.rb):

>   has_attachment :storage => :file_system,
>     :path_prefix => Radiant::Config["gallery.path_prefix"],
>     :processor => Radiant::Config["gallery.processor"]


As you can see in the above code, the Gallery extension uses the  
has_attachment plugin. When setting up the ruby environment the  
gallery_item.rb file is loaded and the above code is executed. When  
executed it makes a call to the "[]" method in Radiants config.rb  
which in turn tries to find the key "gallery.path_prefix" in the  
database by calling "find_by_key(key)". This fails with the message:

> Mysql::Error: Table 'radiant.config' doesn't exist: SHOW FIELDS  
> FROM `config`


This is because the config table has not yet been created (remember  
we are setting up a brand new site and have not run the db:bootstrap  
rake task yet).

Whos fault is this?

Is it the Gallery extension that must check to see if the config  
table exists? Or is it the config handler in Radiant that should make  
this check?

I'll happely fix and submit a patch for this "bug", but need to hear  
what you guys think is the best solution.

/watson