Hey Loren- Thanks for this info, I was wondering if you could give more blow-by-blow on how you did it? Or even put up a wiki page?
This is all I found: http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/wiki/RPS2 and would love to have more to go on. Thanks- Michael On 11/13/06, Loren Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been playing with the Mental branch this weekend to test-out the > work being done on the new Radiant Extensions concept. I thought I > just put down a quick narrative of my experience with it to give > those who've not had a chance to check it out recently a preview of > what's to come. There is some work still to do here, but as far as I > can see a lot of work has been done in the last few weeks. > > > Everything is working pretty well... I can generate and extension > "script/generate extension calendar" and modify the necessary lines > in the extension activate method to make it show-up as an admin tab. > Then I was able to dump a bunch of pre-existing models and migrations > from the Calendar application I want to integrate with ease. > > Understanding that this is very much a work in progress, I did want > to make one note of interest: > > When I created the Calendar extension and then ran my migrations I > found out quickly that it doesn't work well to have a model named the > same as the Extension (I had a Calendar model as well). I renamed my > Calendar model, reversed the migrations by hand and everything > migrated up fine the second time around. > > Then in my calendar controller I dumped a scaffold :event_calendar > and voila! I had a nifty interface for adding and removing calendars > right within Radiant admin. > > I know I for one see the maturation of these extensions as an > important turning-point for Radiant as a project. > > IMHO this robust and Rails friendly way of extending Radiant is key > to allowing it to remain spartan. Though I might still prefer the CMS > to be the plugin a la Comatose, this level (and method) of > extensibility will mean the best of both worlds for most of those who > just have CMS needs + a little something else. > > > > So, John, with crystal ball in hand, what do you see as a likely > timeframe for an official release which includes both Extensions and > Page Types? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
