[Radiant] Extending Radiant

[Christian Aust]

Hi,

I'm trying to extend Radiant 1.0-rc5 from within RAILS_ROOT, that is, I'm 
trying to add models, a controller, routes and such from my radiant site 
without the use of a separate extension. In my opinion this should be this most 
obvious way to add stuff to Radiant (unless it's meant to be reused)

I've succeeded getting my model/controller/routes to work, but can't add 
something to the Radiant UI. I assume that I'd need to use the extension 
interface for this, so I wrote in lib/trainings_extension.rb:

class TrainingsExtension < Radiant::Extension
  version "0.0.1"
  description "Manage trainings"
  url "http://www.somewebsite.com";
  
  def activate
    puts "*** Activating!"
        
    tab "Content" do
      add_item "Trainings", "/admin/trainings", :after => "Pages"
    end
    
    Page.class_eval do      
      # include CustomTags #if any
    end
  end
end

At first, nothing happens starting up the site: No navigation entry, nothing in 
Settings/Extensions. If I require that file somewhere during initialization, 
the extension shows up in Settings/Extensions but still no navigation entry. I 
suspect it hasn't been activated.

How could I activate my extension properly, or else: What needs to be done to 
make it visible to the standard extension loader? Kind regards,

Christian