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== Welcome to Radiant
-Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed
-for small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is
-a general purpose content management system (not just a blogging
-engine).
+Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for
+small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a general
+purpose content management system (not just a blogging engine).
Radiant features:
* An elegant user interface
* The ability to arrange pages in a hierarchy
-* Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a
- custom tagging language (Radius: http://radius.rubyforge.org)
-* Special page-oriented plugins called behaviors
+* Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom tagging
+ language (Radius: http://radius.rubyforge.org)
* A simple user management/permissions system
-* Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML
- (it's easy to create other filters)
+* Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML (it's easy to
+ create other filters)
+* An advanced plugin system
* Operates in two modes: dev and production depending on the URL
* A caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes
-* Built using Ruby on Rails (which means that extending Radiant is
- as easy as any other Rails application)
+* Built using Ruby on Rails
* And much more...
== License
-Radiant is released under the MIT license and is copyright (c) 2006
-John W. Long. A copy of the MIT license can be found in the LICENSE
-file.
+Radiant is released under the MIT license and is copyright (c) 2006 John W.
+Long. A copy of the MIT license can be found in the LICENSE file.
== Installation and Setup
-Radiant is a traditional Ruby on Rails application, meaning that you
-can configure and run it the way you would a normal Rails
-application.
+Radiant is a traditional Ruby on Rails application, meaning that you can
+configure and run it the way you would a normal Rails application.
-Once you have extracted the files into the directory where you would
-like to install Radiant:
+See the INSTALL file for more details.
-1. Create a MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite database for your Web site.
-2. Create config/database.yml for your database setup. (There are
- several examples in the config directory.)
-
-3. Run the database setup script:
-
- % script/setup_database production
-
-4. Start it like a normal Rails application. To test execute:
-
- % script/server production
-
- And open your Web browser on port 3000 (http://localhost:3000).
-
-When using Radiant on a production system you may also need to set
-permissions on the public and cache directories so that your Web server
-can access those directories with the user that it runs under.
-
-Once you've installed Radiant on your own Web site, be sure to add your
-name and Web site to the list of radiant users:
-
-http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/wiki/RadiantUsers
-
-
-== Radiant Admin Interface
-
-The administrative interface is available at /admin/. By default the
-`setup_database` script creates a user called "admin" with a password of
-"radiant".
-
-
== Support
The best place to get support is on the mailing list:
http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/
There is also a Trac powered dev site available here:
http://dev.radiantcms.org/
-Please Note: Before filing a ticket on the dev site discuss your question
-or problem on the mailing list. This makes it much easier to manage
-legitimate tickets.
-
+Please Note: Before filing a ticket on the dev site discuss your question or
+problem on the mailing list. This makes it much easier to manage legitimate
+tickets.
Enjoy!
--
John Long :: http://wiseheartdesign.com
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