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On 10/24/07, Aitor Garay-Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
>
>
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