== Welcome to Radiant

Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for
small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a general
purpose content management system (not just a blogging engine).

Radiant features:

* An elegant user interface
* The ability to arrange pages in a hierarchy
* Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom tagging
  language (Radius: http://radius.rubyforge.org)
* A simple user management/permissions system
* Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML (it's easy to
  create other filters)
* An advanced plugin system
* Operates in two modes: dev and production depending on the URL
* A caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes
* Built using Ruby on Rails
* And much more...


== License

Radiant is released under the MIT license and is copyright (c) 2006-2009
John W. Long and Sean Cribbs. A copy of the MIT license can be found in the
LICENSE file.


== Installation and Setup

Radiant is a traditional Ruby on Rails application, meaning that you can
configure and run it the way you would a normal Rails application.

See the INSTALL file for more details.

== Installation of 0.9 Prerelease

Radiant 0.9 is nearing release. In the meantime, you can experiment with the prerelease version, currently Release Candidate 2.

Install the prerelease gem with the following command:

    $ gem install radiant --prerelease

This will install the gem as ‘radiant-0.9.0.rc2’.

== Upgrading an Existing Project to 0.9

1. Update the Radiant assets from in your project:

    $ rake radiant:update

2. Migrate the database:

    $ rake production db:migrate

3. Restart the web server

== Development Requirements

To run tests you will need to have the following gems installed:

  gem install ZenTest rspec rspec-rails cucumber webrat nokogiri


== Support

The best place to get support is on the mailing list:

http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/

Most of the development for Radiant happens on Github:

http://github.com/radiant/radiant/

The project wiki is here:

http://wiki.github.com/radiant/radiant/


Enjoy!

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The Radiant Dev Team
http://radiantcms.org