Occasionally, I see a post that I have written as a reference in a white paper, a book, or somewhere else online.  I actually started CMSReport.com as a place for me to learn more about Web content management systems and information systems.  Whenever someone references CMS Report it signals that we have gone full circle where someone is also learning from me.  There is not a more awesome feeling than this.

One thing I have yet to achieve is being a legitimate reference at Wikipedia.  Until now!  CMS Report is being referenced on the wiki page for Frog CMS.

1. ^ "phpRadiant to imitate Radiant CMS" (2007-01-04). Retrieved on 2008-04-28.

For those that do not not know, phpRadiant was the original project name for this current Frog CMS.  Frog CMS was inspired by the Ruby on Rails application, Radiant CMS.   Naturally, after two years in development, the developers for Frog CMS have become inspired with their own roadmap for building this CMS.  Frog is currently available at version 0.9.5 from the Frog CMS download page.

Radiant, a Ruby on Rails based CMS, will soon be released under version 0.7. The new version is currently available as a release candidate. 

The most significant changes between Radiant 0.6.9 and 0.7 will include:

• Admin controllers are now “RESTful”, i.e. they conform to the Rails convention for resources.
• Rails 2.1.2 is included.
• RSpec and RSpec-Rails are no longer packaged and are marked as gem dependencies. You need 1.1.11 or newer.
• There are now generators for mailers and migrations in extensions.
• The addition of some database indexes to increase performance.
• Radius tags can now access request parameters and URL helpers directly.

Radiant 0.6.6 was released over the weekend, shortly after the release of Radiant 0.6.5.  Obviously, 0.6.6 of this built with Ruby on Rails CMS was released to fix some bugs in 0.6.5.  So instead of focusing on the bugs, let's focus on what is new in 0.6.5/6 since Radiant 0.6.4 was released in November 2006.

Since Radiant 0.6.4, the latest versions of the software introduced two major changes:

• Rails 2.0.2 included (0.6.4 used Rails 1.2.5)
• RSpec 1.1.4 is used in core and supported in extensions

"Ryan Heneise, of Art of Mission, has just launched a new service built on Radiant. It’s called Radiant Factory. Basically, Ryan is offering professional assistance to anyone who needs help getting up and running with Radiant."

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Just a brief note that Radiant 0.6.4 a Ruby on Rails based content management system, has been released. Radiant 0.6.4 contains a few major changes as well as numerous bug-fixes and enhancements.

As mentioned in the official announcement, included in the release are:

• Rails 1.2.5, Prototype 1.6 and script.aculo.us 1.8.
• Significant refactoring has been done to the administrative user interface Javascripts.
• Better support for MS SQL Server via Rails ticket/patch #8886
• Stricter XHTML compatibility.

Be sure to check RadiantCMS.org for further details.

• conversion to using ActiveRecord-based sessions and storing the id of the logged-in user in the session instead of the complete user object
• addition of the ability to specify the loading-order (and inclusion/exclusion) of extensions in environment.rb
• automatic loading of Rails plugins included in extensions upon activation."