Hello,
Im creating a Frankenstein CMS with ActiveScaffold & Radiant.
The two softwares complement each other very nicely.
ActiveScaffold handling multiples of items like press releases, products
etc.
Radiant handling one-off pages and simple items like blog posts.
My first goal is just to have both running in the same application, so I can
create a simple uberadmin page that will allow users to use one or the other
tool. This appears to be working.
Finally having some success I thought Iwould post it here for anyone else
who might be interested in the same thing. However I am new to
Rails/Radiant/ActiveScaffold and have not yet considered the security or
other more advanced implications of this merger.
In the near future I am hoping to add RecordTags extension so that the
Radiant pages can actually display the information being added to the DB by
ActiveScaffold.
I also hope to add ActsAsTaggable_OnSteroids to the ActiveScaffold admin.
My implementation follows. I welcome any comments and criticisms!!!!
In a nutshell: Used Radiant_On_Rails extension so that ActiveScaffold
controllers could be accessed at all, since be default, Radiant will only
accept urls that map to pages in its own system.
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Install radiant via GEM.
o OK
Create Radiant project via Radiant command.
o OK
Create separate ActiveScaffold project and get it working. Have it use the
same DB as the Radiant project.
o OK
Add "app" directory from ActiveScaffold project to Radiant project
Copy plugin directory from ActiveScaffold to Radiant project.
Copy files from "public" directory from ActiveScaffold to Radiant project.
(like images/javascript/stylesheet files...)
Visit website.
o Received 505
o Dev LOG Shows: uninitialized constant
ApplicationController::ActiveScaffold
Renamed app/application.rb to app/application_DISABLED.rb .
o Works. Problem was that Radiant has its own application.rb in the GEM.
(Is there a better way to handle this, so that both app/application.rb files
get run?)
Visit admin section in web browser:
o NoMethodError in Admin/page#index
o Showing admin/page/_node.rhtml where line #10 raised:
o undefined method `image' for #<#<Class:0x4a16860>:0x4a16838>
o (In cannot find the image method which is defined in:
RADIANT_ROOT/app/helpers/application_helper.rb)
Renamed app/helpers/application_helper.rb to application_helper_DISABLED.rb
.
o Works (Again, problem was that Radiant has its own
application_helper.rb in the GEM. (Is there a better way to handle this, so
that both app/application.rb files get run?)
Install Radiant_on_rails Radiant extension. Make changes to routes.rb /
extensions.rb & copy extension to extension directory.
o Radiant still works.
o I am successfully able to configure a "custom" controller in the app
directory and reach it with the web browser. Yes!
Now try to get ActiveScaffold to work.
Copy code that was at the top of
ActiveScaffold_ROOT/app/controllers/application.rb to the top of my
controller for my model (which is called "category".)
Try browsing to localhost/3000/category
o Radiant returns: "item not found" message.
Make change to routes.rb (specially formatted for Radiant_On_Rails.)
class RailsRoutes
def self.define_routes(map)
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
end
end
o Everything seems to work! Radiant generated website, Radiant Admin,
ActiveScaffold pages, my Custom pages.
(Is there something wrong with having such a liberal routing??)
-topher
ps.
Its been difficult for me. This post helped alot - basically suggesting to
use Radiant_On_Rails:
http://groups.google.com/group/radiantcms-dev/browse_thread/thread/c605fe74cd23f175/122957d72f975e91#122957d72f975e91
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Christopher Zimmermann
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604-484-9279
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