Despite the dependence on GitHub there is no required dependency on
git the program, if you don't have git installed Ray will gladly use
wget instead. So if you had noticed the extension on GitHub already
but thought "pfft, more 'requires git' nonsense" you might have a
second look.
Ray is basically a collection of rake commands that let you manage
your extensions with less typing. For example, if you currently want
to install the Page Attachments extension you'd do something like
gem install mini_magick
cd /radiant/app
git clone git://github.com/technoweenie/attachment_fu.git vendor/
plugins/attachment_fu
git clone git://github.com/radiant/radiant-page-attachments-
extension.git vendor/extensions/page_attachments
rake radiant:extensions:page_attachments:migrate
rake radiant:extensions:page_attachments:update
monit -g mongrels restart all
With Ray you would run
rake ray:extension:page_attachments lib=mini_magick
restart=mongrel_cluster
Page Attachments is what Ray calls a “special extension,” namely that
it's not a normal installation pattern. For all the other great
extensions on GitHub you have a few options. For example, if you
wanted the Mailer extension from the official repository
rake ray:extension:install name=mailer
What if you want if want ntalbott's fork of the Mailer extension?
rake ray:extension:install name=mailer hub=ntalbott
You can get away with only specifing the short name as long as the
extension author has used a name for their extension like "radiant-
extension-name-extension". So what if Bob the extension developer has
decided on some other kind of name, like sweet-sauce_for-radiant?
rake ray:extension:install name=sweet-sauce hub=bob fullname=sweet-
sauce_for-radiant
Right now, Ray is sort of stupid about migrate/update tasks and just
blindly runs them both for all extensions regardless. If an extension
doesn't need one or both tasks run you might see some errors but
they'll be harmless.
Once an extension is installed it can be easily disabled or enabled with
rake ray:extension:disable name=mailer
rake ray:extension:enable name=mailer
To install Ray either
git clone git://github.com/johnmuhl/radiant-ray-extension.git
vendor/extensions/ray
or unpack the tarball into vendor/extensions and rename it ray. No
migrate or update tasks are necessary.
http://github.com/johnmuhl/radiant-ray-extension/tarball/master
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I know if you watch the dev. list this may seem like a day late but
that's OK – I think there's room plus Ray has other options on the
horizon that might be neat outside the extension context.
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