Radiant_CMS

Radiant CMS is an elegant, lightweight content management system built upon the popular Ruby on Rails framework and serves eg. the [http://www.ruby-lang.org Ruby Programming Language website] itself.

For more information on Radiant, please visit the [http://radiantcms.org Radiant website].

==Getting Radiant==

The easiest and recommended way of getting Radiant CMS is via RubyGems.

jruby -S gem install radiant

==Bootstrapping==

In your projects directory issue an application generator command. In this example I'll use the jdbcmysql adapter and my application name will be radiantblog.

jruby -S radiant --database=mysql radiantblog

To set up the database connections edit radiantblog/config/database.yml and create the database as well.

production: adapter: jdbcmysql database: radiantblog_production username: usr password: passwd host: localhost

You can omit to set up other database configurations for now and correct it later.

jruby -S rake production db:bootstrap

The bootstrap task will populate your database and set up a basic administration and page system based on your answers to the setup questions in the terminal. To start your application issue the familiar Rails command.

jruby script/server -e production

Fire up your browser and play around a little with your new CMS - [http://localhost:3000]

==Deployment==

My first deployment was under a Tomcat 6 with the Warbler gem.

jruby -S warble config

My minimal config file is as follows.

Warbler::Config.new do |config| config.dirs = %w(cache config db log vendor tmp) config.gems += ["activerecord-jdbcmysql-adapter", "radiant"] config.gem_dependencies = true config.war_name = "ROOT" end

I set the war name to ROOT to avoid the problems with the default Radiant routing and assets including.

jruby -S warble:war

Deploy your generated war file under Tomcat's webapps folder, start the server and check http://localhost:8080 for your CMS.