> Ah, that's exactly the problem: I wasn't specifying "production" with > the other rake commands that I was running to install extensions. Thanks. > > Okay, dumb question time. As the above shows, I'm not quite sure about > the role that development and production databases play in Radiant. Is > that just a generic Rails thing that doesn't really apply to *running* a > Radiant site? > That's a Rails thing. Development mode only really applies when you're working on the Radiant codebase or an extension and you need to debug things. > Being pretty much a newcomer to Rails apps, is there any decent guide to > how I can use the development and production modes? At the moment I'm > just using the production mode which means I can't preview pages - in > particular, is there a way that I can add pages in draft mode and view > them on a development server (i.e. just webrick/mongrel on a different > port) before publishing them on the live site? I think I saw something > on the Radiant user guide to that effect but without a specific example. > Sorry if that's a very dumb question: it sounds like the sort of thing > that *should* be obvious :-) > > Previewing pages is more a function of the hostname than the runtime-environment. For example, when I want to preview pages on seancribbs.com, I go to dev.seancribbs.com. This is a baked-in default of Radiant. Of course, you'll have to make sure your DNS is set up correctly.
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