I'm in the process of getting a test CMS launched, with Radiant.
(You may be amused to know that the first thing I did after installing
the gem was enter to the console: "radiant help". That produced a rather
unexpected result!)
I've been working for a number of months with Webby, which is similar,
but simpler. After reviewing several detailed descriptions of how
Radiant works, at least at the interface level, I'm thinking it's
probably not beyond my ability, but I'll definitely need to ask
questions here.
My first questions:
* 1. I have very little knowledge of Rails. I don't expect to have time
to fix that substantially any time soon. Will this preclude my using
Radiant to contain a site I already have up which had about 75 pages? (I
don't think so, but...)
Basic concepts aren't a problem - I can brush up on MVC ideas lots of
places, and the mention of '“environments” to separate configuration for
testing, development, and production' at
ttp://wiki.radiantcms.org/Installation is no problem. I'm just hoping I
don't have actually be using (i.e., developing sites in) rails to use
radiant.
For now, I'm only going to be running radiant (hopefully) on my desktop.
If I decide to move to my hosting server, I realize I'll need to know more.
* 2. Is there a reasonably easy way to add the functionality of visitor
comments to some or all pages (ideally after registration with the site,
only, to control spamming)? I see that the Radiantcms.org site uses the
JuneBug wiki (its link at http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Installation - in
footer - is bad, by the way). Would that be one way to do it? (There
seems to be no documentation and no discussion forum for this software,
so I cannot discover this quickly anywhere). It's not really what I'm
asking for, in truth.
* 3. Is there some central place where extensions are registered,
listed, or otherwise easily accessible for review?
* 4. "create a project", then "gem unpack radiant" ???
Following along with the instructions at
http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Installation, it appears that first I create
a project, then I unpack radiant. I don't get it. What does it mean to
unpack radiant? Why do I do it AFTER creating a project? What does it
accomplish?
The talk about this, at this web page, is just dropped into the
discussion of creating a project, and I can see NO relationship at all.
What am I missing, I wonder...?
Thanks for any help. I hope my beginner questions are acceptable here.
t.
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