[Radiant] Combined rss feed and more?

[Martin Olsson]

Yeah, I've been looking at Mephisto as well, but I like the  
"philosophy" behind Radiant more. I couldn't really get my head  
around how Mephisto worked. Radiant seems cleaner, at the expense of  
less functions like comments and stuff.

If you really want to convince me I'll be standing by for the  
Mephisto sales pitch . . .

Regards,
Martin

smpl.se



On 28 jan 2007, at 00.37, BJ Clark wrote:

> Martin,
> I'm the biggest fan of Radiant, but mephisto does exactly what you
> want and is probably a better match for you.
>
> Just my $.02USD
> BJ Clark
>
>
> On 1/27/07, Martin Olsson <martin at smpl.se> wrote:
>> 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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