Hi, Below is a step by step guide to install Radiant CMS on windows. May be it will be helpful for people new to Radiant:
Installation Guide for Ruby and Rails and Radiant 0.9.1 • Following list the version of various components recommended: o Ruby 1.8.7 - http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167 o Rails 2.3.5/Rails 3.0.6 – will be installed as a gem directly by command line o Mysql 5.14.1 http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html o Radiant 0.0.91. – will be installed as a gem directly by command line • Install Ruby 1.8.7 using windows installer - rubyinstaller-1.8.7- p334.exe (make sure to check the box for adding ruby to command line during installation screens). • Install rails specific version – E:\ruby187> gem install rails – v=2.3.5 • Install Development kit - DevKit-tdm-32-4.5.1-20101214-1400-sfx.exe http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ . Run the exe, it will ask for extracting it to a folder. 1. Follow the steps – https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/development-kit ruby dk.rb init ruby dk.rb install • To install mysql2 which comes as a gem for Ruby we can do following 2 steps. Step 1 is recommended. 1. Use the mysql installation of XAMPP. Run the following command from ruby installation directory. Please correct the path for your xamp installation gem install mysql2 -- '--with-mysql-lib="e:\xampp\mysql\lib\opt" -- with-mysql-include="e:\xampp\mysql\include"' 2. Alternatively install mysql community server 5.1 (windows installer) and use the command above after modifying the path. • This is one of the most important step. Download the libmysql.dll from the belowm link and copy to E:\ruby187\bin i.e. your ruby bin folder. http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/svn/t … bmySQL.dll Copy the libmysql.dll from the lib/opt folder of your mysql installation and overwrite it over the file under the bin directory of your ruby installation - e:\Ruby187\bin\ • Run command ‘gem install rails –v=2.3.5’ or ‘gem install rails’ (for rails 3.06) from command prompt. • Run ‘gem install radiant’ to install radiant. As 0.9.1 is the latest version it will get installed. For specific version installation use command ‘gem install radiant – v=0.8.1’ • Create project for radiant in your desired folder say E:\RubySites as 1. E:\RubySites> radiant –d mysql screencast 2. Check the DB names that will be created in the file database.yml under screencast/config directory. 3. Run the command to create and initialize the DB with the radiant tables. Move into the screencast directory to issue these commands rake db:create ( make sure your mysql is up) rake development db:bootstrap • provide user name, name, password for radiant admin. Remember it • Try to start the server : 1. Ruby script/server • If it gives the error for mutex then do the following. Refer to http://makandra.com/notes/1051-fixing-uninitialized-constant-activesupport-dependencies-mutex-nameerror 1. In the environment.rb file under the config directory of your radiant application screencast/config add the line “ require ‘thread’ “ before “require 'radius'” line. 2. In the environment.rb file under the config directory of your radiant application screencast/config add the line “ require ‘thread’ “ after “RAILS_ROOT = File.expand_path("#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/..") unless defined? (RAILS_ROOT)” line.
