[Radiant] Combining Radiant with a Rails App

[Andrew Hodgkinson]

Harvey Bernstein wrote:

> Here's the thing.  I want to keep DRY by making use of Radiant's layout
> facilities, user management, tags (in particular breadcrumbs) and 
> snippets.

I'm doing something broadly similar. I have a collection of Rails 
applications (RForum, Instiki, Typo etc.) all sharing some layout 
fragments with a global stylesheet defining the bulk of visual 
properties and custom stylesheets to cope with the quirks and different 
class/ID names used in the different application RHTML files. Some 
customisation of RHTML files was required in addition to this.

For less dynamic pages, Radiant appears to be just what I need - a small 
team wants to edit effectively static content. Since Radiant has the 
concept of layouts and snippets, things like the shared header, footer 
and static sidebar content should probably be defined as snippets within 
Radiant. What I'd like to do is have these end up exported into the 
filesystem when they are changed, so that while Radiant keeps its own 
copy in the database, a synchronised copy appears in a shared location 
(accessed primarily by symlinks currently) so other parts of the site 
maintain layout. To do this I believe I will have to modify Radiant to 
save snippets to the filesystem as well as into the database when 
updated or created anew.

This may be an approach you could use - turn the idea of incorporating 
your Views into Radiant on its head, and instead use exported bits of 
Radiant content in your other Views.

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