Comment Away

After over a year of promising it, I finally sat down last night to enable comments on this "blog" of mine. Turns out, the process was actually pretty easy and painless, and there was really no reason I shouldn't have done it earlier (except for the fact that I doubt anyone will actually care about commenting on this thing).

If you’re interested, I’m using the alno branch of the Radiant Comments Extension – it seemed to be the one with the most active development, and appeared to be the most up-to-date. Installation is pretty straight forward (like any other radiant extension), so just follow the instructions in the README.

Anyway, while I was messing around with things, I decided to upgrade to Radiant 0.7.1 and also move from mongrel to passenger. I hardly ever re-deploy this thing, but when I do, I’d like the restart process to be as painless as possible, and what’s easier than touch tmp/restart.txt?

The whole process was pretty painless, and I actually did most of the work last night, long after I should have been asleep (but that proves how mindlessly simple it was). For those interested, upgrading radiant was as easy as installing the latest version of the gem (and also, I unpacked it into vendor/radiant with rake radiant:freeze:gems), and then:


rake radiant:update
rake production db:migrate

For those of you planning to do this yourself, I should probably advise you to back up your database before you do anything drastic like upgrading your blogging engine, blah, blah, blah. Meh, consider yourself warned. I didn’t have any issues (and I didn’t bother backing up my db before-hand), but YMMV.

So go ahead, comment away – put all my hard work to good use.

Posted by Phil Burrows on Mar 31, 2009

Comments

  1. Shih-gian Lee Wednesday, April 01, 2009

    Hooray! I got to be the first to comment :) I find your attachment_fu posting about image compression very helpful. Thank you for the post. It gives me a starting point to modify the plugin to meet my needs. Keep up the good work!

  2. Willie Abrams Wednesday, April 01, 2009

    You had to expect this: FIRST POST!

    Back to the drugs. :-)

  3. Phil Burrows Friday, July 17, 2009

    Hey, nice to see you finally did something about the way comments were displaying in a terribly ugly fashion.

  4. MichaellaS Wednesday, July 22, 2009

    tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!

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