[Radiant] Use of external DB and related data

[Silvano Stralla]

Hello everybody,

I'm wondering if Radiant could be a convenient choice on a project  
I'm starting to work on and I'd be curious to hear your opinions.

The site I'm starting to develop is an almost regular site, for the  
main part made of simple content pages. For this part I'm pretty sure  
Radiant could work very well.

But the site will also display part of the data that are actually  
managed from the intranet site (made on Rails), and therefore should  
read data from a different database. I should also create a small  
authenticated area on the site in which, behind a login form, the  
users can download file, eventually upload documents, compile little  
survey, maintain their profile updated and so on.

This is a possible plan: I thought to develop a series of custom tags  
and behaviours to show in the pages the data coming from the intranet  
database. Would you think it could be an easy path to follow for  
doing what I have to do?

Thank you in advance for every help,
Silvano