3 Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for
4 small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a general
5 purpose content management system (not just a blogging engine).
9 * An elegant user interface
10 * The ability to arrange pages in a hierarchy
11 * Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom tagging
12 language (Radius: http://radius.rubyforge.org)
13 * A simple user management/permissions system
14 * Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML (it's easy to
16 * An advanced plugin system
17 * Operates in two modes: dev and production depending on the URL
18 * A caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes
19 * Built using Ruby on Rails
25 Radiant is released under the MIT license and is copyright (c) 2006-2009
26 John W. Long and Sean Cribbs. A copy of the MIT license can be found in the
30 == Installation and Setup
32 Radiant is a traditional Ruby on Rails application, meaning that you can
33 configure and run it the way you would a normal Rails application.
35 See the INSTALL file for more details.
38 == Development Requirements
40 To run tests you will need to have the following gems installed:
42 gem install ZenTest rspec rspec-rails cucumber webrat nokogiri
47 The best place to get support is on the mailing list:
49 http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/
51 Most of the development for Radiant happens on Github:
53 http://github.com/radiant/radiant/
55 The project wiki is here:
57 http://wiki.github.com/radiant/radiant/