[Radiant] RadiantOnRails extension

[Jed Hurt]

Sean Cribbs wrote:
> The stock environment.rb and boot.rb will load Radiant from
> vendor/radiant automatically.  

You mean the stock environment.rb and boot.rb from a Radiant app, right? 
Isn't the idea to make RadiantOnRails act like a normal Rails plugin 
that can simply be installed from the root of a Rails app with 
'script/plugin install radiant_on_rails'?

I believe this is why John laid out the folder structure the way he did:

John W. Long wrote:
>plugins/
>   radiant/
>     init.rb
>     lib/
>     vendor/
>       radiant/  <<< an svn:external to trunk/radiant


That would be necessary to get auto-loading from a stock Rails app. 
There seems to be a little bit of confusion in this thread ("Are we 
adding Rails to a Radiant app, or Radiant to a Rails app?"), but I think 
this snippet of Loren's original post should clear things up:

Loren Johnson wrote:
> putting Radiant in the vendor directory of an existing 
> full-scale Rails app and having it play nicely

I totally agree with Loren that it would be a much more common scenario 
to want to retrofit a Rails app with Radiant. I've created more than a 
few Rails apps (primarily e-commerce stores) where the site owner 
eventually wanted more control over the copy. Update rhtml >> check-in 
>> cap deploy gets quite tedious after a while. Retrofitting the app 
with Radiant (in an unobtrusive way) would have been a great solution.

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