[Radiant] Combined rss feed and more?

[Martin Olsson]

Hi Todd,

Thanks for the suggestion. That cold actually be a rather good  
solution. I'd have:

smpl.se/things
smpl.se/thoughts
smpl.se/rss   <- combined
smpl.se/rss/things
smpl.se/rss/thoughts

Pretty, no?

Sometimes the simplest solution is the nicest one. Thanks!

/Martin

martin at smpl.se






On 27 jan 2007, at 12.57, Todd McGrath wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I understand correctly, I have a similar need in creating XML  
> pages based on
> content for "regular" HTML pages.  Here's one idead - how about  
> creating
> something like:
>
> smpl.se/
> smpl.se/things
>   - archive
>   - [posts]
> smpl.se/thoughts
>   - archive
>   - [posts]
> smpl.se/rss
>   - thoughts_rss
>   - things_rss
>   - rss
>
> In this way, when you can recurse using r:find you'll know if you  
> are in the RSS
> or HTML section of the tree.  In your rss files, you can pull in  
> settings from
> pages (title, url, page parts, etc.).  When you update the HTML  
> pages, the RSS
> feeds will be automatically updated.
>
> More info on recursion- if I'm reading the source for the find tag  
> correctly,
> the url attribute is used in a find_by method.  So, in this  
> attribute, a
> regular expression that includes some things and not others will  
> not be
> available for use.
>
> I'm fairly new too, so maybe/hopefully other people have ideas.
>
> Todd
>
>
> Quoting Martin Olsson <martin at smpl.se>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm new to this list, I'm new to Radiant, and I'm new to Ruby on
>> Rails. I am programmer and interface designer and I'm not new to
>> working with a cms - I've even created one of my own that had a very
>> similar philosophy to Radiant, but build in java and templated using
>> XSLT.
>>
>> Now I've decided to create my own personal page using Radiant, and I
>> love how easy it was to set it all up. I have a few peices left
>> before I'm done and I'm wondering if anyone would like to help me  
>> out:
>>
>> 1. Should I use Mental? Thanks to Sean Cribbs for the blog post - it
>> cleared up most questions, but not all of them.
>>     Will I be able to migrate my data as Mental evolves?
>>     What extensions are already released? I want comments and  
>> tagging/
>> keywords.
>>
>> 2. I've been tinkering with a hierarchical blog-like structure, like
>> this:
>>
>> smpl.se/
>>   - rss
>> smpl.se/things
>>   - archive
>>   - rss
>>   - [posts]
>> smpl.se/thoughts
>>   - archive
>>   - rss
>>   - [posts]
>>
>> I want separate rss-feeds for "things" and "thoughts" - which works
>> perfectly.
>>
>> I also want a combined rss-feed at smpl.se/rss that recurses down and
>> aggregates all the updates.
>>
>> My first approach was to just use the sample code provided in the
>> styled blog and point it to "/" instead of "articles". This doesn't
>> work - I suspect it goes into some kind of loop beacause my server
>> goes all huffy and puffy and has to be restarted.
>>
>> Right now I have glued it together by just hardcoding first "things"
>> then "thoughts", but I would like the combined feed to be
>> chronological instead. I would also like to be able to add new
>> 'categories' without having to update the feed page.
>>
>> Is there some really smart and pretty way to recurse downwards,
>> picking out new pages (but skipping stuff like rss and archives),
>> creating a chornological feed of the latest new pages on the whole  
>> site?
>>
>> Radiant is looking really good. It seems _almost_ perfect for
>> smpl.se, and I'm willing to contribute to making it even better and
>> customize it to my needs.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin Olsson
>> martin at smpl.se
>>
>>
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