On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Jeff Casimir wrote:
Jim, Yeah, thanks for your work on "comments". The only thing I ran into off a checkout of Master that appeared to be a bug/missing feature was in the comments form where it uses the tag like "if_simple_spam_filter_enabled" or something -- Radiant complained that the tag was unknown. Given that you're working on that right now, I'm sure I just got a version that wasn't 100% ready. I like that simple spam protection, though, so I just removed the conditional and everything is great.
That's my fault. David Cato did some great work on the spam filtering stuff, but I changed the tag name to fit in with other methods. I've fixed the repository now, but the problem was changing from if_comments_use_simple_spam_filter to if_comments_simple_spam_filter_enabled
There will be more to come in this area.
As far as the automation/testing plan, it would seem like a combination of EC2 + Chef would be an ideal setup. I have been interested in some of that automated setup technology, so if no one jumps on it by the time I hit summer vacation, I'll take a look. I'm also interested in working on more "narrative" documentation for Radiant. Right now there is a lot of great information, but some is in the wiki, some in github pages, some in the list archives, and there isn't necessarily a clear story. Probably within the wiki itself, it would be nice to walk a totally new user through the major processes, maybe even going beyond "novice" and starting them into extension customization/development. I'm a decent Rubyist and sys admin, and it took me some work to get everything going in the right direction. I'm sure there are a lot of normal users out that who would be good community-members if we can get them started. If anyone has thoughts on this, I'd love to hear them. - Jeff PS: Postgres? I knew you seemed like a smart guy. :) On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Jim Gay<[email protected]> wrote:On Jun 21, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Jeff Casimir wrote:Jim,Wow, great info. I was actually fighting with "comments" among others for a few hours, but I'm sure I made it more work than necessary. Now everything is going great and I have a lot better understanding of howthe extensions are managed and work.I'm maintaining comments so it's probably my fault. But let me know what you ran into, I made a few commits to the main repository that I shouldn't have pushed until I had the fixes in so you may have pulled it down in that window. Also, I'm integrating built-in spam filtering and other things, sothe code is getting a lot of updates.It would be pretty awesome if some kind, free-time having soul were toimplement "isitradiant.com" like "isitjruby.com". Especially withRadiant being at 0.8 and, at least from the version number, reserving the right to break compatibility at will, it would be awesome if therewere a site that did nightly integration tests of all the extensions in the registry. It would be tougher to do "Radiant + Extension A +Extension B" combinations, but at least "Radiant + A" singles would bereally useful information.I would personally love to see that. I've been meaning to contact the folksat http://runcoderun.com/ to see if they'd have a way to do it.The way I think we'll need to address it for now is to have people from the community help test. I, for example, use PostgreSQL so I try to make sure that the Radiant core will pass all of those tests, wheras others use MySQLor SQLite and test there.- Jeff On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Jim Gay<[email protected]> wrote:On Jun 21, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Jeff Casimir wrote:Hi All,Is the expectation that unless the GitHub page specifically says thatan extension works with 0.8, that it WON'T work?Maybe. It depends. Some extensions might not require an update.I've tried and failed to install a few extensions, and now there's so much non-working cruft that I'm thinking it'd be easier to start a newinstance and transfer all my content then debug what's wrong with different rake tasks, migrations, etc.Different pages have different suggestions for installation process,is it "more preferred" to use: script/extension install extension_name or rake radiant:extensions:extension_name:installThese are entirely different things.Using "script/extension install extension_name" will get information fromthe extension registry http://ext.radiantcms.org/, pull down the extension, run the migrate task, and run the update task.The command "rake radiant:extensions:extension_name:install" would justbesome command to perform the "install" rake task (assuming it exists) inthe extension "extension_name"To see what rake tasks your extensions provide, you may do "rake - T" fromthe root of the project.I've had better luck with the former, but many of the github pages suggest the latter.Using "script/extension" will pull down the information. This is the sameasa download, git clone, svn checkout, or whatever else. "script/ extension install" assumes the presence of "migrate" and "update" tasks for eachextension and runs them.If you were to use some other process for getting the code (download, git clone, etc) you'd still need to run whatever tasks are necessary to fully"install" the extension. Some extensions need a database migration, othersneed to put files in the public directory (the "update" rake task) andothers need nothing.Help (http://ext.radiantcms.org/extensions/5-help), for example, waswrittento just be a drop-in extension (no migrate or update tasks) where youjust put it in your project and start up the server. Dashboard(http://ext.radiantcms.org/extensions/40-dashboard) however requires anupdate task to be run but no migration. RBAC Base(http://ext.radiantcms.org/extensions/87-rbac-base) requires both migrateand update to be run.Apologies if I'm missing something obvious,Not obvious, but Josh French has committed changes for the next releasethat will allow extension developers to configure dependencies from the extensionwhich might help with the installation process as far as things likeerror messages go. There will be more development on this in the future.And the Ray extension (http://ext.radiantcms.org/extensions/36- ray) has a way to manage dependencies from within an extension (as well as min/max versions of Radiant), but I'm not sure how many take advantage of it.JeffYou might be able to get a lot of help by simply emailing the list with something like "I want to upgrade to Radiant 0.8.0 and I have extensionsX, Y and Z. Are all of those extensions ready?"You're likely to get replies from the extension authors, or other usersof those extensions who might know. So... what extensions do you have?I personally have many extensions which I wrote and manage and updatingthemis not my full-time job, so some may not work yet. If it's a simple fixand I know somebody needs it, I'm happy to address the changes. 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