[Radiant] Rails + Radiant

[Tim Gossett]

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Sean Cribbs <seancribbs at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  [1] This would allow me to embed Radiant into a Rails application, right?
>>  So, I could build a site around Rails and then use Radiant to manage the
>> relatively static content, page caching, layouts, stylesheets, etc.  If so,
>> this might be the perfect thing for one of the projects I have in mind.
>>
>>  No, the other way around.  It would let you build your application inside
> Radiant as an extension.  However, you still have incredible freedom because
> any routes you define will override Radiant's routes.  In general, though,
> as long as you don't do anything complicated, it's pretty straightforward to
> convert an existing Rails app into a Radiant extension.
>

Yeah, it's a lot easier to build your app inside Radiant. I found
share_layouts because I wanted to use Radiant's user system and admin space
to manage a directory of organization members, but display them with my own
controllers. I made an extension for the admin part (it's a lot easier than
you might thing... execute "script/generate extension" from RADIANT_ROOT to
see an explanation, and then follow the tutorial [
http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Creating_Radiant_Extensions]), and then dropped
some controllers and views in vendor/radiant/app... Sean can correct me
here, but I think you should be able to create the app directory in
RADIANT_ROOT to get the same effect.


>
>  [2] On the other hand, I'm planning to build an information site that
>> stores manuals, etc. in HTML and lets people add comments, sign up as users,
>> etc.  I guess my confusion is because really, the relatively static content
>> is the core of the site, meaning that Radiant should be at the centre of the
>> action!  Any guidance would be enlightening :)
>>
>>  That's all very possible.  As long as your site visitors are not editing
> content (but really only adding comments), Radiant would be a viable choice.


And page_group_permissions [
https://github.com/MrGossett/radiant-page-group-permissions-extension/tree]
makes it easy to assign page editing permissions to users.

Let me know how the project goes.

--
Tim Gossett