On 30 Jun 2010, at 02:04, Jim Gay wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Jeff Casimir <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> I'd like to see radiant follow some of the footsteps from merb and
>> have two gems: radiant-core and radiant-more. The 'radiant' gem would
>> <snip>
>
> To me, radiant-more would be the part that adds snippets, layouts,
> users, image/file management, stylesheet/javascript management, and
> perhaps other things.
>
> Other people might not see it that way, but by far one of the most
> popular questions I get about Radiant has to do with adding it to an
> rails app, rather than shoe-horning a rails app into it. The biggest
> sticking point is the User system.
I completely agree here, except that I think a page-management engine has to be
able to work with layouts, and I'd like to see versioning in core. Then a -more
gem could add:
- users
- assets
- snippets and js/css
- sites
- configuration
- dashboard
If it did that in a modular way that allowed areas of functionality to be
omitted or supplanted:
radiant.handle :images, :with => "DragonflyExtension"
radiant.handle :authorization, :with => "RbacExtension"
radiant.handle :dashboard, :with => "MyLocalExtension"
radiant.unhandle :configuration
then radiant could realistically offer to drop in anywhere and manage pages for
any app, which would be a splendid thing indeed.
will
