[Radiant] [ANN] share_layouts extension

[Casper Fabricius]

Nice, Sean!

If anyone prefers it the other way around, that is; wants to use an  
ordinary Rails layout for their Radiant pages, this extension makes  
it possible:
http://svn.casperfabricius.com/extensions/file_based_layout/

Best regards,
Casper Fabricius

On 21/09/2007, at 0:21, Sean Cribbs wrote:

> One of the "most requested" features for Radiant is to be able to  
> reuse
> layouts in your standard Rails controllers.  Well, it's here!
>
> With the help of John, I was able to write this extension from scratch
> today, and it is pretty well tested.  I invite you to try it out and
> give me your feedback.  You can download the extension from the main
> Radiant repository:
>
> http://dev.radiantcms.org/svn/radiant/trunk/extensions/share_layouts
>
> The README has a little more detail, but here's the basic way to  
> use it:
>
> class MyController < ApplicationController
>   radiant_layout 'Main'
> end
>
> This will make all your actions from that controller be rendered  
> within
> the Radiant Layout named 'Main'.  'content_for' blocks are mapped to
> page parts, e.g. a content_for :sidebar block will be accessed via
> <r:content part="sidebar" /> in the Layout.  The total result of your
> template, a.k.a. @content_for_layout, maps to the 'body' part, or
> <r:content />.  If your Layout has <r:title /> or <r:breadcrumbs />
> invocations in it, you can assign these in your controller/view with
> @title and @breadcrumbs respectively.  You may also use content_for
> :title/:breadcrumbs if you prefer.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Sean
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