The News extension for Radiant gives you the ability to post “News” items.  The new items are cool for mini updates on things, OR for really posting News 🙂

I am going to go through installing the News extension on Radiant 0.7.1.

Based on the install info for News it says you need to install calendar_date_select and points you at their page.  Their google code page says you can simply do:

sudo gem install calendar_date_select

Yeah, so,  for some reason that doesn’t work. Skip that step and do the rest, we will address it later.

1)  Clone from github!

git clone git://github.com/screenconcept/radiant-news-extension.git vendor/extensions/news

2) Run the Migration and Update tasks

rake production radiant:extensions:news:migrate
rake radiant:extensions:news:update

Know that you can swap out “production” or add in whatever environment you want.

3) Finally we install the calendar_date_select PLUGIN not the gem! I could not get this thing working with the gem.

git clone git://github.com/timcharper/calendar_date_select.git vendor/plugins/calendar_date_select && rm -rf vendor/plugins/calendar_date_select/.git

4) Weeeeee 🙂