Hi, I have been off the list for a while but using rails, radiant and spree for several years. Looking through many recent items on the mail list, I think that I can identify a common theme that has not been addresed. I only noticed this because I set up a new rvm environment using 1.8.7 to run radiant and I did not have the gems locally. Since github makes it very easy for new people to access the source (good), the mails indicate that many people are first trying to install and run radiant from a cloned radiant/radiant source tree (bad). Even though it is certainly not the best way to get started, we could try to make this easier for them, or provide hints to put them on the right path.
For example, if a newb clones/downloads the radiant source tree, cds to radiant and then runs bundle install, it appears to work! He/she gets a nice message saying 'Your bundle is complete' but it is not truly ready for use. Then running 'bundle exec rake production db:bootstrap' as in the readme gets the next error message, which is 'no such file to load -- radius' because the bundle isn't designed for this purpose. It doesn't include radiant as a gem, which pulls in the other dependencies. We could:- 1) Include remarks in the readme and install files saying that it probably should not be run from the source tree :-) and advising them to install the radiant gem 2) include another file like a development Gemfile that contains the full list of dependencies and providing a hint to newbs that they should rename and use the longer file if they want to run from the source. 3) I know it sucks, but if we included a database.yml file (not just the templates like database.sqlite.yml), it would be one thing less for a novice to do David V. PS I hope that the for,atting works out this time!
