Alternate Installation Methods

The preferred installation method for Radiant is to use Ruby Gems, but for the astute Radiant developer, there are at least two other options:

Download

Radiant is also available for download as a Tar or Zip archive. Since many people have shell access to their hosting server an easy way to do this is to type the follow commands (assuming the latest release is 0.6.0):

% cd /radiant/installation/path/
% curl -O http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/19983/radiant-0.6.0.tgz
% tar -xzvf radiant-0.6.0.tgz

Subversion

You can get Radiant through the Radiant repository as well. This route will require the Subversion client. If you don’t already have the Subversion client software, download it, install it, and execute the following commands:

% cd /radiant/installation/path/
% svn co http://dev.radiantcms.org/svn/radiant/trunk/radiant/ .

This will check Radiant out from the trunk branch of the repository (where all the development happens).

Note: Latter versions of Radiant allow you to freeze Radiant? into your vendor directory. This method is preferred to the above if you would like to run on edge.