On Mar 16, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Sean Cribbs wrote:
Youssef,
This is the perennial question. I should make a wiki page for it!
Although there are a million variations on them, the three main
strategies are thus -
1) Build customizations/other apps as Radiant extensions (most
popular)
2) Keep Radiant and your other app in parallel, as separate apps
(works for shopify.com and dozens of others)
We wrote the header_authorize extension to do this second option that
Sean listed using Sun Java Access Manager (but you could use any other
similar system that would handle your user authentication)
http://ext.radiantcms.org/extensions/11-header-authorize
http://github.com/saturnflyer/radiant-header_authorize-extension
In the case of our client at http://www.practicegreenhealth.org, we
have several apps behind the access manager, but have written
extensions to pull in information from the other apps (radius tags to
grab data from the forum, for example).
This allows us to keep the content management piece concerned with
content management and nothing else.
There's a downside to that in that there may be multiple interfaces
for the different apps or similar data. If you want one interface,
building extensions for all the other tasks might be a good idea.
3) Start with Radiant as the base (not in vendor) and add your
customizations on top (Ba did this IIRC)
If you want a more detailed discussion of the benefits and caveats
of each, let me know. "Mountable apps" are in the near future for
Rails, so you may see Radiant do that eventually.
Sean
Youssef Chaker wrote:
Hey guys,
I am new to Radiant, in fact I haven't done anything with it yet.
But i've
been struggling with Drupal and ExpressionEngine and want to move
toward
something that uses ruby and would really like to be able to pitch
radiant
to my boss or my clients. One of the main questions i have about
adopting
Radiant, is whether it is possible to integerate Radiant with an
aleady
existinig rails app. and if it is, how easy is that process and can
anyone
point me to a tutorial?
In many cases of the pojects i've been on, there was always the
need for
custom code but also some form of content management system on the
side for
static content that the client can easily edit and such. So if you
guys have
any pointers on the subject, i would really appreciate it.
thanks.
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