RadiantCMS in 2019

[Mohit Sindhwani]

Hi Everyone,

What is your opinion for using Radiant CMS in 2019? I went away to
Jekyll for my personal blog, and in some other cases, people moved to
Wordpress. However, every few months, I keep realising how much I miss
the elegenace of Radiant, and am curious what others feel about using it
in 2019.

Thanks for any insight!

Best Regards,
Mohit.

[Walter Lee Davis]

I'm not sure it's usable in today's world. The Rails version in master is pinned at 2.3.x, and Ruby 1.9, neither of which are really viable without a lot of patching for CVEs and such. There was a branch about 6 years ago trying to move to Rails 4. But here is is 2019 and we have Rails 6. Not saying you need that to be current, but at least 5.1 or 5.2 would be nice, if only for the security patches.

It's a real shame, I remember this system very fondly, it always managed to do so much with so little code.

Walter

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[Mohit Sindhwani]

On 2019-9-19 12:15 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
> I'm not sure it's usable in today's world. The Rails version in master is pinned at 2.3.x, and Ruby 1.9, neither of which are really viable without a lot of patching for CVEs and such. There was a branch about 6 years ago trying to move to Rails 4. But here is is 2019 and we have Rails 6. Not saying you need that to be current, but at least 5.1 or 5.2 would be nice, if only for the security patches.
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> It's a real shame, I remember this system very fondly, it always managed to do so much with so little code.

Thank you Walter. Yes, my memory is the same - and my concern is also
the same. I guess Rails did change quite a lot between 2.3 and 4.x - let
alone 5.x. I will probably poke around a bit again unless someone else
adds more to thread.

Best Regards,
Mohit.
2019-9-20 | 5:41 PM.

[Benny Degezelle]

Hi Mohit, Walter,

To be honest, I delivered a new site on Radiant only last month...

For some projects, it's a risk I'm still willing to take.

There's also a dozen or so older Radiant sites of mine still online, and so far none of them have been hacked.

I had this new year's resolution for 2019 to work on Radiant every friday, needless to say it didn't quite work out like that yet.

I have a 6 weeks old baby now, so my time for Radiant will stay limited for another while.

Last I checked:

The master branch has been reverted to the commit right before we started breaking things in order to try and convert into an engine for Rails 4.

The work that was in master until a few months ago is now in the previous_rails_upgrade_attempt branch.

This actually looked viable again the last time I looked at it. That is to say, it booted and I could get to the backend, but it didn't load extensions e.g., Radiant::Config is broken, etc.

There's still hundreds of failing tests, but most are all due to a handful of issues I think.

Then there's also my own stab at rewriting radiant from scratch that might be of interest: github.com/jomz/radiant-rewrite

If you are interested in furthering development in Radiant or discussing it, I think the best place now would be the Slack channel.

There's still some people from the old days there, wánting to help at the least.

I think it's invite-only so let me know where to send an invite, and I will gladly let you in!

Cheers,

Benny

Op vrijdag 20 september 2019 11:42:09 UTC+2 schreef Mohit Sindhwani: