Radiant is designed to be run in shared hosting or multi-site scenarios, aka instance mode. Thus, the majority of the Radiant code lives in the gem directory when not frozen. This allows each site or instance the ability to have the minimum amount of code and configuration necessary and avoid duplication. However, just like with Rails, there are two primary reasons to 'freeze' Radiant:
1) To set constant the version of Radiant you are using, either via the gem or edge, to a version that is solid and works for you. 2) To have the absolute latest code from the development repository, i.e. "be on the edge". And yes, all it does is dump a bunch of files in vendor/radiant. There is some duplication, but the files that are duplicated probably never run from vendor/radiant (I'm thinking dispatch scripts, the boot and environment scripts, etc), only from the root of your instance. Regarding your site-specific assets -- images, CSS files, etc -- place them in your public/ directory. The vendor/radiant/public/ directory is never touched by the web server. Place extensions in vendor/extensions, NOT vendor/radiant/vendor/extensions. Freezing edge is equivalent to an SVN checkout/export IFF you checkout to the vendor/radiant directory. A straight checkout is called 'application mode' and really should be used for core development purposes only. Sean David Piehler wrote: > I'm a bit confused about freezing. Here's what I did: > > cd ~/Sites/myproject > rake radiant:freeze:edge > > This creates ~/Sites/myproject/vendor/radiant which appears to duplicate > all of what is in ~/Sites/myproject and also adds in all the app files, > etc.. I'm just confused by the duplication and where I should be putting > all my CSS files, images, and extensions. > > > Also, grabbing the code from SVN is equivalent to freezing on edge, > right? > svn co http://dev.radiantcms.org/svn/radiant/trunk/radiant/ > > Thanks, > - Dave > > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
