I’ve been playing with many CMS, I developed and worked on many web sites, and although Radiant 0.9 was not yet released (Radiant 0.9 RC1 was released), the updates that we have in Radiant 0.9 are great and we should strongly consider start using Radiant 0.9 right now. I don’t understand why they didn’t name it 1.0, since it’s really mature.
The actual support for multiple languages, with plugins like globalize2, save the images automatically in Amazon S3, which is pretty cheap, and you can host your site on herko for $0, and start paying once you have thousand of visits, well, I’m having dreams right now about it, but Radiant stop being a toy some time ago to be a real mature CMS and one more of the reasons that many people is migrating to Rails (because of the CMS 
), anyway, I love playing with Radiant 
Let’s get started. There is an excellent guide wrote by Aissac to install Radiant with Paperclip and Globalize2, but if you follow the guide step by step, you will find some troubles (I did), so I left you here a step by step guide, for beginners, so you can get your Radiant 0.9 RC 1 plus the most used plugins with support for multiple languages.
Assuming you already have installed ruby, rails, rubygem, etc. the first step is to install Radiant 0.9 RC 1, we can download it from the next address:
http://radiantcms.org/downloads/radiant-0.9.0-rc1.gem
Once you download it, execute the command:
gem install radiant-0.9.0-rc1.gem
We generate our site
radiant new_site
And we edit the database configuration file (config/database.yml)
development: adapter: mysql database: new_site_development username: root password: host: localhost encoding: utf-8
We generate the database, and we end the installation of Radiant
rake db:create rake db:bootstrap
Now we start installing the plugins, first, copy_move plugin
git clone git://github.com/pilu/radiant-copy-move.git vendor/extensions/copy_move rake radiant:extensions:copy_move:update rake radiant:extensions:copy_move:migrate
We install the reorder plugin, which will allow us to order our website pages
git clone git://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder-extension.git vendor/extensions/reorder rake radiant:extensions:reorder:update rake radiant:extensions:reorder:migrate
We continue with paperclip
git clone git://github.com/kbingman/paperclipped.git vendor/extensions/paperclipped rake radiant:extensions:paperclipped:migrate rake radiant:extensions:paperclipped:update
Now we install globalize2, which allows multiple languages on our site (even if we are just thinking about just one language)
git clone git://github.com/Aissac/radiant-globalize2-extension.git vendor/extensions/globalize2 rake radiant:extensions:globalize2:migrate rake radiant:extensions:globalize2:update
A intermediate step before continuing, we need to edit the file config/environment.rb, and after the commented line with config.extensions, we add:
config.extensions = [ :copy_move, :paperclipped, :globalize2, :all ]
And now, we install globalize2-paperclipped, which allow us to globalize our assets
git clone git://github.com/Aissac/radiant-globalize2-paperclipped-extension.git vendor/extensions/globalize2_paperclipped rake radiant:extensions:globalize2_paperclipped:migrate rake radiant:extensions:globalize2_paperclipped:update
The chicken is ready!!! (Argentine phrase 
), now you can have your site with Radiant, in multiple languages, don’t forget to check each plugin documentation, in example, to setup many languages in globalize2, edit the file config/environment.rb and add to the end of it:
Radiant::Config['globalize.default_language'] = 'sp' Radiant::Config['globalize.languages'] = 'en,de,fr'
Thanks for the nice summary of steps. However, for some reason, it is not working for me.
It is not picking up the ?locale=xx in the admin section. It always uses the default locale.
I also have these warnings:
warning: already initialized constant SnippetTranslation
warning: already initialized constant LayoutTranslation
…… (a few more)
Any thoughts?
Comment by Joris — January 21, 2010 @ 7:55 PM
Hi Joris
I just moved to Guadalajara and had about 5 minutes to check some things on the net. I will check again the step by step guide I made. Notice that there is not need to do something like /?locale=xx, but instead, to use the URL/locale/route instead, like http://www.myblog.com/fr/contacts, although http://www.myblog.com/contacts?locale=fr should also work.
As a start, check the table config in the database, there should be two rows, one like globalize.default_language, and another row like globalize.languages. If you don’t have such rows, make sure you have added some configuration in the config/envirnoment.rb like this:
Radiant::Config['globalize.default_language'] = ‘us’
Radiant::Config['globalize.languages'] = ‘de,fr,uk,au,ca,ca’
About the warnings, it’s ok, radiant 0.9 is a release candidate, and although most plugins were updated to work with radiant 0.9, they still have to do some cleaning to drop all those warnings
Thx
Comment by admin — January 23, 2010 @ 3:10 PM