We're almost done with our radiant site, but have a few remaining
things. I asked a question previously about embedding another RoR app
in Radiant. The solution I have right now is to use an iFrame. What's
not good about this is you define the size for the iFrame and the
screen real-estate used is not dynamically updated - not to mention
maintaining another ruby on rails app!
My requirements for this app are pretty basic and I should be able to
port it to an extension:
- take one text box of input (autofilled based on an external database*)
- Query the external database* based on the chosen input
- Pass part of the result to a c++ console app
- Parse the output from the c++ app and display in a table.
Where I am uncertain is - Can you query a different database from an
extension? If so, how?
Thanks!
Colin
P.S. Since a pic is worth 1000 words... here is a mockup of what I am
trying to do. The side and the top menus are rendered in radiant. The
input field and result are what my extension needs to handle. My
extension needs two pages - an index and a view. The mockup is of the
view.
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