4 merb\_radiant is the codename for a port of popular Radiant Content Management
5 System (CMS) to the merb MVC framework.
7 **WARNING** : merb\_radiant is in early porting stage, and should only be
8 considered for consumption by reasonably advanced Ruby and merb developers.
10 Features of merb\_radiant include:
12 * an elegant user interface
13 * the ability to arrange pages in a hierarchy
14 * a flexible templating system providing layouts, snippets, page parts,
15 and a custom tagging language (Radius: <http://radius.rubyforge.org>)
16 * a simple user management and permissions system
17 * support for both the Markdown and Textile syntaxes, vanilla HTML, and the
18 ability to develop and plug in your own alternative filters.
19 * an advanced plugin system
20 * operation in two modes: development and production, depending on the URL
21 * a caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes
22 * built on the cutting-edge, fast Merb framework.
25 Installation and Setup
26 ----------------------
28 Please see the INSTALL file details on getting merb\_radiant up and running.
33 Performing a git clone of one of the following repositories will get you the
36 git clone git://github.com/myabc/merb_radiant.git
37 git clone git://gitorious.org/merb_radiant/myabc-clone.git (on gitorious)
39 git clone git://github.com/sbusso/merb_radiant.git
40 git clone git://gitorious.org/merb_radiant/mainline.git (on gitorious)
42 The following additional mirrors are available:
44 git://repo.or.cz/merb_radiant.git
45 http://repo.or.cz/r/merb_radiant.git
47 Licensing and Copyright
48 -----------------------
50 merb\_radiant is released under an **MIT license**. Copyright information, as
51 well as a copy of the MIT license may found in the LICENSE.txt file.
56 merb\_radiant is in early porting stage, so full support infrastructure is not
59 * For now, please check out the porting wiki:
60 <http://github.com/sbusso/merb_radiant/wikis>
62 * You may also contact the developers directly:
63 - <alex@alexcolesportfolio.com>
65 You can also try the Radiant CMS mailing list for information relating to
66 Radiant CMS, the original Ruby on Rails-powered CMS:
67 <http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/>