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The basic idea of the snapshot extension is to generate a local copy of all pages in Radiant's database. This allows to deploy a complete site as static files to the web server, where it can be served statically by the web server (Apache...) without a running Radiant instance. It's useful for deployment of Radiant sites to cheap hosting servers where there isn't Rails support. Also high traffic sites will benefit. All this works if the rendered pages depend only on the state of the DB at snapshot creation time. It won't work on a blog site where users can post comments, for example. Neither won't work if "non deterministic" tags are used, like <date for="now"> and <random>. Also care must be taken with the back_door extension. Well, in these cases the extension "will work" in the sense that the pages are generated, but obviously they will be "stale" since they are "fixed" and don't represent their "dynamic" version. Although it looks quite a hard requirement, in practice most of the sites generated by CMSs are "static" (think on most company sites). I have developed this extension for myself, i will use it in a few sites i'm developing. It works like a charm in the sites i have tested it. It will take me a few weeks to finalize the extension, but i publish it now so it can be tested and commented by everyone. Remains to be done: documentation, usage examples ( Apache's .htaccess, etc.), minor extra functionality and general clean-up. This extension comes from the ideas i commented in thread http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/124798 . USAGE (assuming the cwd is the root of the Radiant site (RAILS_ROOT)): - install extension - execute "rake -T | grep snapshot" to see the taks and their description (it's controlled with Rake tasks) - the default configuration should be correct for quick test, check it at "vendor/extensions/snapshot/config/snapshot.yaml" - if you need to update the configuration, run "rake snapshot:create_config" and edit the file in "config/snapshot.yaml" - execute "rake snapshot:create", all the site will be dumped to "snapshot/" (by default "production" database) - execute "rake snapshot:serve" to start a local web server on http://localhost:8080 where you can test the snapshot - profit! :-) Comments etc. welcomed. /AITOR
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