Hi Aitor, It might be worth putting up a project for this extension at http://code.google.com/hosting/
On 10/25/07, Aitor Garay-Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The attachment is here: http://aitor.name/snapshot.tar.gz > > /AITOR > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > -- Regards, Hiram Blog: http://hiramchirino.com _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
