Aitor Garay-Romero wrote: > Hi!, > > Find it attached to this message. > > 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 >
Sounds like a really good idea! I think it's a great idea for sites that are managed by us, rather than the clients. I have a new answer to the FAQ on static sites with Rails. I think this gives a very good combination. Thanks Aitor. Cheers, Mohit. 10/25/2007 | 11:57 AM. _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
