[Radiant] Extensions repository

2007-04-30 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Hey guys, I was just wondering whether there should be a centralized extensions repo for tested-and-approved extensions? For now it seems that there are several working extensions on different places and svn repos. I think it would help to have them in one place.

[Radiant] Preview (extension?)

2007-04-13 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Alright, I just realized that Radiant needs (badly) a module/extension for previewing articles before publishing (mostly when using formatting filters). I haven't been following the list too close as of late, but is anyone working on this? Any code I can take a stab at?

[Radiant] Slicehost

2007-04-03 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Hey, To all folks who recommended Slicehost...thank you very much. It's is indeed what I was looking for. Excellent price-value deal. The flexibility of dedicated hosting @ shared hosting prices. My customer will now be a lot less wary about hosting. Oh yeah and running a Mongrel cluster in the

Re: [Radiant] Radiant Digest, Vol 12, Issue 53

2007-03-28 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Thanks a lot for the info guys. Seems SliceHost is the way to go. Will talk to the client, see if this seems acceptable to them. Best, Ruben On 3/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send Radiant mailing list submissions to radiant@lists.radiantcms.org To subscribe or

[Radiant] Hosting Companies

2007-03-27 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Hello folks, I recently signed a customer and they were terrified to know that their Rails app was going to be hosted on the hosting co whom with I do most biz (don't wish to mention who they are). NowI've heard SliceHost and MediaTemple are really good...I'd like to know if any of you has

Re: [Radiant] Ordering of pages

2007-01-26 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Anton, Even though Radiant has evolved fairly quickly, the fact is that it is a work in process which, in turn, means that many times people have to hack their work-arounds to get stuff working the way they want. So, if there's a specific task that you cannot concieveably accomplish with existing

Re: [Radiant] Food for thought

2007-01-19 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Andrew, You're right. However, I think the efforts (or intentions thereof) are out there. I started messing with the quick start page, sadly I really haven't had the time to finish even though have every intention to do so. Some people have already turned useful mailing lists post into proper

Re: [Radiant] What about...

2007-01-17 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
That does not sound bad at all. Simply set the config files as a Ruby class set all the values in a hash table (though it would be nice if we standarize nomenclature and so forth). Though I don't know if that scheme would still suffer from page-specific problems. On 1/17/07, Adam Williams [EMAIL

Re: [Radiant] Custom Tags and Code reuse

2007-01-17 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Nice Wiki entry, Michael. I'm sure it'll come handy soon to many of us. If not for the navigation tag itself, but for the tag customization. On 1/17/07, Michael Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added a wiki HowTo that contains some of the great information I got on this thread about the

Re: [Radiant] Custom Tags and Code reuse

2007-01-16 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Hmmm this smells like and looks like a great candidate for the Wiki...or is it just me? On 1/16/07, Sean Cribbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must be missing it, I don't see an expand method anywhere other than here: http://radius.rubyforge.org/classes/Radius/TagBinding.html#M11 Ok,

Re: [Radiant] Custom Tags and Code reuse

2007-01-16 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Michael, Anyone can open a Wiki account. If you don't find a good home for the text, then you can create a page (it will be at the discretion of John wether to leave it or remove it). On 1/16/07, Michael Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm this smells like and looks like a great candidate

[Radiant] What about...

2007-01-16 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
It seems that many of the problems with extensions that require some sort of config file are due to cross-platform treatment of text (speacially \s and \t). Wouldn't it make sense to use not-so-space-sensitive XML files instead of the beloved yml? I know that a big faction of Ruby/Rails users

Re: [Radiant] What about...

2007-01-16 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
that could make Radiant more accessible to everyone who wishes to try it out. On 1/16/07, Sean Cribbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ruben, What configuration needs are you thinking of? Sean Ruben D. Orduz wrote: It seems that many of the problems with extensions that require some sort of config

Re: [Radiant] What about...

2007-01-16 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Can we store these settings in a table in the DB with a page_id foreign key? Wouldn't that circumvent the page-specific problem? We could agree upon a string format for the settings (i.e. comma separated, pipe | separated etc) to be stored in. The schema would look something like this: id |

Re: [Radiant] POLL: Upgrading Unpacked Radiant Applications

2007-01-15 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Ditto Giovanni. On 1/15/07, Giovanni Intini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Source / No / No ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site:

Re: [Radiant] Release of how to set up on DreamHost the proper way coming

2007-01-15 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Andrew, Are you running on production mode? On 1/16/07, Andrew Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. Got the fix started. Here's the problem (Again) -- It nags that bluecloth does not exist. I've dropped bluecloth.rb in RAILS_ROOT, no avail. vendor/, nope. vendor/plugins/, nope again.

Re: [Radiant] Release of how to set up on DreamHost the proper way coming

2007-01-15 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Andrew, I *HIGHLY* suggest you install from source. Will make your life much easier. On 1/15/07, Ruben D. Orduz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew, Are you running on production mode? On 1/16/07, Andrew Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. Got the fix started. Here's the problem (Again

Re: [Radiant] Typo3 instead of Radiant?

2007-01-14 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Hey guys, @John, I totally understand because I myself only get to tinker with Rails/Radiant for one or two hours a day max (living to make, son wife at home). Just wanted to bring up attention to some outstanding issues that I think need to be worked on. I, for one, will keep working on user

[Radiant] Typo3 instead of Radiant?

2007-01-13 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
This is not intended as a flame or to cause controversy, please don't take it as such. I just recommended a customer to adopt Typo3 instead of Radiant CMS, why? * Mailer Behaviour is shaky at best. * Print page to PDF/PS/CSV is not even completely supported by Rails. * User roles. Those were

Re: [Radiant] Translating Radiant: Looking for an Update

2007-01-12 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
I concur with the notion that localization is of utmost importance for any project's success. I can help with translation to Spanish and Italian...just need the platform to do it. Of course, I need to finish helping with the Wiki as well :/ If I could only find the time. On 1/12/07, Jamie

Re: [Radiant] Password protection part of a radiant web site

2007-01-11 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
What I don't get is how can he be running Radiant w/o an app folder inside RAILS_ROOT dir? I'm still puzzled about that one. Sensa una buona explicazione non puo fare niente. On 1/11/07, John W. Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hello. Is there any working solution made

Re: [Radiant] Password protection part of a radiant web site

2007-01-11 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Luigi, Yeah .htaccess will not work under litespped or lighthttpd, so John's suggestion probably won't work. And if the password protection of the extension relies on HTTP auth, then it probably won't work either. On 1/11/07, Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ruben D. Orduz wrote: What I

Re: [Radiant] radisu tags

2007-01-08 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Sara, First...r yuo dsylxeic? j/k :) Second, I personally edit all pages inside Radiant (truly despise copy-and-paste) on a trial-and-error basis (on development mode so there's no page caching). Don't know of eclipse plug-ins for Radius tags. Go Gators!!! On 1/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [Radiant] Admin using Internet Explorer 6

2007-01-06 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Todd, I once had those problems it has to do with IE6's CSS quirkiness. I had to fiddle with the stylesheet until I got a more desirable, cross-browser solution--it's not by any means perfect, but it looks much better in the IE family. On 1/6/07, Todd McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm

Re: [Radiant] Admin using Internet Explorer 6

2007-01-06 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
more to do with server config and not related to the app. On 1/6/07, John W. Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ruben D. Orduz wrote: I once had those problems it has to do with IE6's CSS quirkiness. I had to fiddle with the stylesheet until I got a more desirable, cross-browser solution

Re: [Radiant] Admin using Internet Explorer 6

2007-01-06 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
%; } On 1/6/07, Ruben D. Orduz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, let me see if I can get the admin CSS I fiddled with in a more presentable form...I poked around it so much (trying to fix things in IE) that it looks (and is) very hocky-poky. If and when I do, I'll be sure to submit a ticket for it. Also

Re: [Radiant] installing on Ubuntu

2007-01-04 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Sara, Indeed if you delete the socket line and use either 127.0.0.1 or just plain ol' localhost works fine. On 1/4/07, Sara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, Thanks so if I understand that correctly you deleted the sockets lines all together and instead wrote a host:127.0.0.1 instead? On

Re: [Radiant] installing on Ubuntu

2007-01-04 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
' from script/setup_database:9:in `run' from script/setup_database:297 On Thursday 04 January 2007 12:53, Ruben D. Orduz wrote: Sara, Indeed if you delete the socket line and use either 127.0.0.1 or just plain ol' localhost works fine. On 1/4/07, Sara [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Radiant] installing on Ubuntu

2007-01-04 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
On Thursday 04 January 2007 14:36, Chris O'Meara wrote: I believe I took the sample file and whacked the socket entry. On Jan 4, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Ruben D. Orduz wrote: no host specified? Or did you purposely ommited it? On 1/4/07, Chris O'Meara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what

Re: [Radiant] installing on Ubuntu

2007-01-04 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Sara, Sorry to hear you're having such a hard time getting Radiant to work. You can write me directly if you want, so we don't bother the rest. I need to know the following: * Are you sure mysqld is running? * Are you developing on windows? * Can you copy and paste both your db yml file and the

Re: [Radiant] installing on Ubuntu

2007-01-04 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
John, will do. I'm almost certain it has to do with formating (spacing/tabs) of her DB config files. On 1/4/07, John W. Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ruben D. Orduz wrote: Sorry to hear you're having such a hard time getting Radiant to work. You can write me directly if you want, so we

Re: [Radiant] Displaying a specific child's content

2007-01-03 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
part=special_part / /r:if_content /r:find --- Best regards, Andreas Semt Ruben D. Orduz schrieb: I suppose I misunderstood his question. I thought he wanted to know how to access the content of a child page, but in retrospect, I realize that he just wanted

Re: [Radiant] Displaying a specific child's content

2007-01-01 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
I suppose I misunderstood his question. I thought he wanted to know how to access the content of a child page, but in retrospect, I realize that he just wanted to show the actual content of a child page somewhere else. I think the r:find tag definitely helps, but I don't know if it is able to

Re: [Radiant] Deactivate page cache for development?

2006-12-31 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
regards, Andreas Semt Ruben D. Orduz schrieb: Andreas, I believe if you comment line 8 of environment.rb and restart your web server it will, be default, not cache pages. On 12/29/06, Andreas Semt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list! Is it possible to disable the page caching

Re: [Radiant] Deactivate page cache for development?

2006-12-31 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
, and it is only in production mode that page caching takes place. Greetings, Andreas Semt Ruben D. Orduz schrieb: Andreas, Can you try ommiting the -e production flag when starting either Mongrel or WEBrick? Or try replacing it with -e development? Still I think it's REALLY weird that your

Re: [Radiant] Displaying a specific child's content

2006-12-31 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
I don't really understand your question. You want to display the content of a specific child page, where? If you just want to show that page simply use http://yourURL.com/nameOfChildPage . If you could expound a little more what exactly are you trying to accomplish we should be able to help you a

Re: [Radiant] User Roles

2006-12-30 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Adam, I concur with much of what you say here. I think user/group permission/management is one of the weaker, if not the weakest points of Radiant at this point in time. I strongly believe it should be part of the core and not handled by a third party plug-in. Permissions should always be

Re: [Radiant] Deactivate page cache for development?

2006-12-30 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
clicked the 'Clear page cache' button ... oh my! Only the files '.htaccess' and 'index.yml' are still in the 'public' directory under the radiant root dir. *All* other files - inclusive the 'images' subdirectory - are gone. Is that a feature??? Best regards, Andreas Semt Ruben D. Orduz

Re: [Radiant] Deactivate page cache for development?

2006-12-29 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Andreas, I believe if you comment line 8 of environment.rb and restart your web server it will, be default, not cache pages. On 12/29/06, Andreas Semt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list! Is it possible to disable the page caching mechanism during development of a Radiant web site?

Re: [Radiant] How to include date and time?

2006-12-25 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Hi Andreas, I believe so. If you want to have a context-insensitive date, you could either modify the date tag or simply write a new one. In either case, it should be fairly straight forward. Peace. On 12/25/06, Andreas Semt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ruben, thanks for your explenations.

Re: [Radiant] How to include date and time?

2006-12-24 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Hi Andreas, That's trivial. Refer to line 315 of page_context.rb file. Just for reference this is what it says: 215 # r:date [format=format_string] / 316 # 317 # Renders the date that a page was published (or in the event that it has 318 # not ben modified yet, the

[Radiant] Wiki page

2006-12-20 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
John (W. Long), just to give you the heads up that I'm going to be working on the Radiant quickstart Wiki. Peace. ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site:

Re: [Radiant] modify CSS default

2006-12-18 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Que quieres saber de las etiquetas radius? Dependiendo quizas te puedo ayudar. On 12/18/06, javier barcena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: si! tb teng ootra duda y es trabajar bien y usar bien los tag de radius gracais.. tenes data sobre esto. saludos javier 2006/12/18, Ruben D. Orduz [EMAIL

Re: [Radiant] modify CSS default

2006-12-18 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: si estoy armando un sitio basadao en radianntcms tengo la hoja de estilo.. pero no se los pasos a seguir .. es decir una manera ordenada de desarrollo 2006/12/18, Ruben D. Orduz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Que quieres saber de las etiquetas radius? Dependiendo quizas te puedo

Re: [Radiant] Checking for an asset existence

2006-12-14 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
coffee...yeah right! :) On 12/14/06, Sean Cribbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize... File.expand() should be File.expand_path(). That's what I get for drinking too much coffee!! Sean On 12/14/06, Sean Cribbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this: The Radius code:

Re: [Radiant] Best way to build a navigation bar with Radiant CMS?

2006-12-11 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Hello Andreas, I've found that a collection of open source (or closed-source but free) tools are needed. I've yet to find the ultimate CSS/XHMTL app. For structural layout I recommend N|vu (both windows and *IX), for CSS any text editor with syntax highlighting can do the job (I use PSPad for

[Radiant] Stylesheet

2006-12-09 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Hello, I'm assuming that if I specify a CSS file in the layout it will use that instead of the one in the DB, correct? I just don't see the benefit of having the style sheet stored in DB to be quite honest. For one, it's one more query, for two fiddling and fine tunning the style sheet is a heck

Re: [Radiant] Best way to build a navigation bar with Radiant CMS?

2006-12-08 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Andreas, Atop what Sean said, or rather, to reiterate: Radiant is no different than any other CMS/Blog tool insofar as presentation layer is concerned, perhaps a bit more flexible, if anything. I personally base my designs (I admit it, I'm not a web designer) on XHTML strict and CSS 2, after

Re: [Radiant] r:parent doesnt' work with mine

2006-12-07 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
For many people the configuration mailer behavior is just too cryptic and obfuscated. It only makes sense to have a page in the admin interface to configure the mailer behavior by just filling a form. This is a very important (if not the most important) feature to some people, I think we as a

Re: [Radiant] Any step by step configuration for Mailer Behaviour

2006-12-05 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
I was wondering, what's the argument for not allowing Radiant to use unix's mail() facility? I understand if you're running your app in an OS other than standard *IX, you should use an SMTP, but given that most hosting companies use a flavor of *IX I don't see why not allow radiant to use of those

Re: [Radiant] Default Schema

2006-11-29 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
I believe changing the nomenclature of tables would be tough. Rails relies heavily on naming conventions to generate models and objects, so even though you can change the table names, it would entagle things for you. If you don't have CREATE privileges in the DB server, I suggest having your ISP

Re: [Radiant] /admin problems

2006-11-28 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Could you please post the exact error output text? On 11/28/06, John Furfey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen this one posted, but not the solution. I have Radiant installed and the site section is working fine, but I get an application error when I try to go to the admin section.

Re: [Radiant] /admin problems

2006-11-28 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
It seems that you need to give Apache read/write access to the script folder. sudo chmod -R 755 ./script should help. On 11/28/06, John Furfey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here it is: Permission denied - script/../config/../tmp/sessions//ruby_sess.b794dd418e29357b

Re: [Radiant] Why is my radiant site running so slow?

2006-11-28 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
It looks pretty responsive to me. Any DB-driven app will have a similar lag. The fact that you're using a shared server only makes matters worse, specially at peak times. On 11/28/06, Mike Moscow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I am developing the following website using Radiant:

[Radiant] Featured Post

2006-11-15 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Alright,Here's what I've done so far:* Migrated my DB so that the page_parts table has a boolean (and int, really) field called isfeatured, default to 0 (false).* Tried to add a Featured behavior (with little success). Need to do:* Add the featured bahavior.* Modify the the layout/page so that it

Re: [Radiant] please help: How do I set the default URL path with multiple installs?

2006-11-13 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
The easiest way is to set your DNS to point to your radiant sub dir. Else you could fiddle with the routes.rb file to fit your needs.On 11/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I've managed to set two radiant sites using apache 1.3 and fcgi. Now I canaccess them site at

Re: [Radiant] please help: How do I set the default URL path with multiple installs?

2006-11-13 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
I think what you describe should be fairly easy to solve with routes.rb hacks. Else your COULD create an url filter in the front controller to add /myApp/ in front of all incoming URLS. Sorry I can't be more specific at the moment...I'm at work and am supposed to be debugging some 2K lines of .Net

[Radiant] Sticky Posts

2006-11-13 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Hey guys (I know...I should be debugging .Net code...I'm a bad employee),What's would be the most painless way to add a sticky behavior to posts? For example..something I wish to remain in the front page in spite of its publishing date. Any help is much appreciatedJose...if I can get a few

Re: [Radiant] please help: How do I set the default URL path with multiple installs?

2006-11-13 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
error/500', :action ="" 'error' # Everything else site.connect '*url', :action ="" 'show_page' end On 11/13/06, Ruben D. Orduz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what you describe should be fairly easy to solve with routes.rb hacks. Else your COULD create an url filter in the front

Re: [Radiant] please help: How do I set the default URL path with multiple installs?

2006-11-13 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
'not_found' site.error 'error/500',:action = 'error' # Everything else site.connect '*url', :action = 'show_page' end On 11/13/06, Ruben D. Orduz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what you describe should be fairly easy to solve with routes.rbhacks . Else your COULD create an url filter in the front

Re: [Radiant] Table of contents snippet help

2006-11-12 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Can you just create a FAQ controller (and behaviour) and have the url encode the arguments? Even though your solution *works,* it violates DRYBIG TIME!On 11/12/06, Joseph Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I came up with.Its not ideal because its less automatedthan I wanted.I have to

Re: [Radiant] How do you manage blog items?

2006-10-27 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Yes, I alredy bumped into this problem. Once you have more than a few dozen posts, it becomes really clumsy to change/edit/delete any given post. Typo (which is also built on Rails) offers a better solution for blogs (strictly speaking), IMO. However, the great thing about Radiant is that it is

Re: [Radiant] RadiantCMS, Maple Leaf Web Project

2006-10-27 Thread Ruben D. Orduz
Hello Greg,Radiant in my opinion is too young to handle a fully dynamic website with tons of content. I really like Rails and Radiant, but in all honesty Radiant still ways to go to even compete with full-featured CMSs such as Typo3 and Joomla! which are amazingly complete, robust, open source and