[Radiant] One Radiant to serve them all

[Jonathan Métillon]

Thanks you Adam, that's what I needed to know. If I can't get a solution to
really use only one radiant install, then I'll use this solution.

Jonathan

On 5/10/07, Adam Williams <adam at thewilliams.ws> wrote:
>
> On May 10, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Jonathan Métillon wrote:
>
> > Sean told me that's "partly the point of 'instance mode'.  You can
> > install the gem system-wide, and only check out the minimum of files
> > when you need a new site. Extensions currently have to be installed in
> > every instance you create, however."
> >
> > So is there a way to have the extensions installed one time in one
> > place? Like replacing the extensions directory with a symlink to a
> > unique place?
>
> I think you could hack something to work, or create a patch ;_
>
> Though I don't know that would be necessary...
>
> Check out extension_loader.rb, in particular the method
> discover_extensions. Notice that configuration.extension_paths is
> used to find places to look for extensions. Then, jump over to
> initializer.rb - the Radiant one, not the Rails one. Here you will find:
>
> --------
> class Configuration < Rails::Configuration
>      attr_accessor :view_paths
>      attr_accessor :extension_paths
>
>      def initialize
>        self.view_paths = default_view_paths
>        self.extension_paths = default_extension_paths
>        super
>      end
>
>      def default_view_paths
>        [view_path].compact
>      end
>
>      def default_extension_paths
>        [RADIANT_ROOT + '/vendor/extensions', RAILS_ROOT + '/vendor/
> extensions'].uniq
>      end
>
>      def admin
>        AdminUI.instance
>      end
>
>    end
> -------
>
> See that the default_extension_paths indicate that extensions may be
> loaded from two places, by default. Perhaps you could simply place
> your extensions in RAILS_ROOT + '/vendor/extensions', which, if you
> are running in instance mode using the Radiant GEM, would be the one
> extension location to rule them all.
>
> I love test driven design...
>
>     --- config/environments/test.rb - 8 ---
>     config.extension_paths << File.join(File.expand_path
> (RADIANT_ROOT), 'test', 'fixtures', 'extensions')
>
>
>    aiwilliams
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