[Radiant] Using Rails plugins in an extension

[Adam van den Hoven]

Hey all,

I'm trying to build my own radiant plugin to handle a store locator  
type functionality. I'm working from Loren Johnson's Directory plugin (http://github.com/lorenjohnson/radiant-directory-extension/tree/master 
) but I want to do things a little different. Notably, I want to  
replace his logic with the geokit acts_as_mappable. I'm not sure what  
is the best way to do this. I've looked at a few other plugins and I  
think I know what I should do but I really need someone to give me a  
yes/no on this approach.

Currently I want to do the following:

1) Copy the contents of http://geokit.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/ to / 
vendor/extension/location/lib
2) In the location_extension.rb replicate the contents of http://geokit.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/init.rb 
  in the activate method
3) Replace all references to the geokit configuration values in the  
library with calls to Radiant::Config
4) Set default config values in the extension's activate method.

Does this make sense? Is there a better way to do it?

Adam