[Radiant] Rails 2.3 Templates WAS: Radiant 0.8.0 Asterism Release

2009-06-15 Thread Adam van den hoven
Now that Radiant is on Rail 2.3, has anyone investigated (or planning to investigate) using application templates to simplify things? For example, its often been asked if there were an easy way to share template sites and/or themes. This has always been hard to do but it occurs to me that with

[Radiant] Mailer extension question

2009-04-10 Thread Adam van den Hoven
r:mailer:if_value name=recipient equals=1 - o...@example.com/r:mailer:if_value But when I run it I get the following error: syntax error on line 4, col 53: `' I'd rather not have to customize the extension if I don't have to. -- Adam van den Hoven Hybrid Web Developer Little Fyr Media p

[Radiant] Re: Mailer extension question

2009-04-10 Thread Adam van den Hoven
and disadvantages. On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 23:26 -0700, Adam van den Hoven wrote: Hey all, I need some help. I'm trying to make a mailer page where I want to allow users to select the recipient. However, I really don't want to expose the recipient's address. I was planning on using

Re: [Radiant] Hosting 0.7.1 site w/ Papperclipped

2009-04-08 Thread Adam van den Hoven
/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant -- Adam van den Hoven Hybrid Web Developer Little Fyr Media p: 604.618.0845 e: adam.vandenho...@gmail.com w: http://www.littlefyr.com ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant

Re: [Radiant] [ANN] Tiny-Paper Extension

2009-03-17 Thread Adam van den Hoven
compatible but what about earlier versions, like 0.6.9? Adam -- Adam van den Hoven Hybrid Web Developer Little Fyr Media p: 604.618.0845 e: adam.vandenho...@gmail.com w: http://www.littlefyr.com ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search

Re: [Radiant] Customizing Radiant's command line behaviour

2009-01-31 Thread Adam van den Hoven
for demo.radiantcms.org: rake production db:bootstrap ADMIN_NAME=Administrator ADMIN_USERNAME=admin ADMIN_PASSWORD=radiant DATABASE_TEMPLATE=/usr/ local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/radiant-0.6.9/db/templates/styled- blog.yml OVERWRITE=true Sean Mohit Sindhwani wrote: Adam van den Hoven wrote: I was talking

Re: [Radiant] Customizing Radiant's command line behaviour

2009-01-30 Thread Adam van den Hoven
On 30-Jan-09, at 7:32 PM, N. Turnage wrote: Adam van den Hoven wrote: The thread on what standard plugins do people use as well the Oops I deleted the contest2 content thread got me thinking that it would be great if someone wrote a tutorial to the effect of, How to customize your

Re: [Radiant] Customizing Radiant's command line behaviour

2009-01-30 Thread Adam van den Hoven
wrote: Adam van den Hoven wrote: Absolutely. I'm talking about tailoring it for MY needs and then documenting how I did it so that others can, if they like, do the same. I don't want to change Radiant, I wan't to change how I use it. Its like taking a suit off the rack and asking a tailor

Re: [Radiant] Accidently removed the body of contest2.radiantcms.org/

2009-01-27 Thread Adam van den Hoven
, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mohit Sindhwani t...@onghu.com wrote: Adam van den Hoven wrote: I think this highlights why some sort of versioning really shouldn't be an optional part of radiant. Distribute it as an extension, but make it one of those extensions that comes by default. This way

[Radiant] Customizing Radiant's command line behaviour

2009-01-27 Thread Adam van den Hoven
The thread on what standard plugins do people use as well the Oops I deleted the contest2 content thread got me thinking that it would be great if someone wrote a tutorial to the effect of, How to customize your Radiant command. Usually I start 90% of my radiant sites by installing the

Re: [Radiant] Re: Flash In IE

2009-01-10 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Wow, that is a lot of JavaScript. Since MS has rolled back its click to activate end run around Eolas, its not really necessary any more. Further, something as simple as a slide show should be written to work on pretty much any version of Flash you're going to find in the wild. I,

Re: [Radiant] Editing Styles in Radiant CMS

2009-01-09 Thread Adam van den Hoven
+1 for Its All Text! Textmate. Thanks for the reminder about the short cut; I hate looking for that little icon. I suppose, though, if you wanted a real IDE, one could write an Eclipse extension... (ouch my brain hurts) On 9-Jan-09, at 10:31 AM, Michael Kessler wrote: I'm using the 'It's

Re: [Radiant] Edit History Extension

2009-01-05 Thread Adam van den Hoven
... and that is tough to do when you add extensions to the mix. Manuel On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Adam van den Hoven adam.vandenho...@gmail.com wrote: You should also consider that if you're going to keep a version history that only one revision (and certainly not necessarily the current

Re: [Radiant] Edit History Extension

2009-01-05 Thread Adam van den Hoven
You should also consider that if you're going to keep a version history that only one revision (and certainly not necessarily the current revision) should be published. This will allow you make a number of changes to a page (especially useful if you extend the page preview extension to

Re: [Radiant] Shiny ooo-aaah AJAX navigation.

2008-12-23 Thread Adam van den Hoven
There really isn't any reason to use AJAX get this effect, unless you're talking about tens of thousands of pages. Simply start by loading your navigation in an unordered list. Include all the natural elements and none of the pagination controls. Then write javascript that will take your

Re: [Radiant] Radiant for Blogin - Shorthand?

2008-12-06 Thread Adam van den Hoven
If you wrote a simple parameterized snippet (you'd need that extension too), you could easily set things up so that you have: r:snippet name=amazon id=123456789 Some Cool book /r:snippet its not exactly what you want but it would be 80% of the way there! On 6-Dec-08, at 12:53 PM, Anton J

Re: [Radiant] Templates extension documentation?

2008-12-04 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Nate, It seems to me that what is missing is a blow by blood dripping, gut wrenching, soul ripping blow account (was that over the top?) of how to get something going with Templates. You should be writing down your experiences to share with the rest of us. I'm sure the Radiant Wiki has

Re: [Radiant] r:find question

2008-12-03 Thread Adam van den Hoven
any thought to these kinds of needs. My vote was with the desire for consistency, but that does still leave the legitimate, requested need un-addressed here. -Chris Chris Parrish wrote: +1 Sean Cribbs wrote: Adam van den Hoven wrote: EEEWWW NOO! Please don't do this. If you are going

Re: [Radiant] plugin jrails prevents adding page parts

2008-12-03 Thread Adam van den Hoven
If you are just using jQuery (presumably for your production site not the admin interface) why not save yourself the hassle and use the copy in Google's CDN? http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ You can do things using Google's loader (which I'm not a huge fan of, though it is a neat

Re: [Radiant] Modifying look-feel, and an error I'm seeing

2008-11-28 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Change the admin.subtitle and admin.title properties and you'll be good. You can do it through the console (which I don't like) or install the Settings extension and edit it directly in the UI (which I do like). On 28-Nov-08, at 10:47 AM, Robert Calco wrote: What's the trick to

Re: [Radiant] Reorder Extension Question

2008-11-25 Thread Adam van den Hoven
I didn't have a problem with it when I used Import/Export to transfer pages from my old database to the new. It just adds a Position column. On 25-Nov-08, at 10:16 AM, Chris Parrish wrote: I see from the Readme that Reorder breaks Import Export. Is this still true? Is there a workaround?

Re: [Radiant] help

2008-11-24 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Some how this conjures up a scene from a John Wayne movie for me. Adam On 24-Nov-08, at 2:24 PM, Sean Cribbs wrote: Anything specific we can help with? Sean Chris Hoad wrote: Chris Hoad Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1763 852361 Mob: +44 7905 475916

Re: [Radiant] Re: Rendering Partials within a Radius Tag

2008-11-21 Thread Adam van den Hoven
That pattern seems like a sufficiently good paradigm that some sort of convention should be created to do this. Perhaps tag my_tag do |tag| @my_tag_data = MyModel.find_by_name(tag.attr['name']) tag.render end end would automatically use view/tags/my_tag.haml.html or something

Re: [Radiant] help with dynamic_image extension

2008-11-19 Thread Adam van den Hoven
yeah that's what I'm using now... Thx, by the way, for the help. Adam On 19-Nov-08, at 6:31 AM, Sean Cribbs wrote: Adam van den Hoven wrote: I'll jump on IRC soonest (any suggestions for a good mac client?) Colloquy is what everyone I know uses. Sean

Re: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use for non-technical content editors?

2008-11-18 Thread Adam van den Hoven
I'd like to see this too. I use it for exactly this purpose, to give non-technical people the ability to manage a simple website using a CMS. To be honest, I think that the mostly technical person doesn't really need an OS CMS, they can either hand code the HTML just as easily (maybe run

Re: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use for non-technical content editors?

2008-11-18 Thread Adam van den Hoven
You just hit on an interesting idea for an extension. Frequently, people are going to reuse the same bits over and over. Instead of making them go find it, what if we put a scratchpad on the right hand side of the parts (which will consume some space from the parts but that should be OK

Re: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use for non-technical content editors?

2008-11-18 Thread Adam van den Hoven
wrote: On Nov 18, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Adam van den Hoven wrote: You just hit on an interesting idea for an extension. Frequently, people are going to reuse the same bits over and over. Instead of making them go find it, what if we put a scratchpad on the right hand side of the parts (which

[Radiant] help with dynamic_image extension

2008-11-18 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Hey all. I'm trying out the dynamic_image extension and I'm running into a small problem. I keep getting unable to open image `/public/ dynamic_images/19b15c4d2dbe9802f43d7a171b27196e.png': No such file or directory: in my output. Now I'm assuming that its a permissions issue but I'm not

Re: [Radiant] SnS Requests Anyone?

2008-11-14 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Sent from my iPhone On 13-Nov-08, at 9:13 PM, Chris Parrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam van den Hoven wrote: Things I would like: something like a separate field for copyright notices so that you can minimize the JS/CSS without loosing (someone else's) copyright notice. You can

Re: [Radiant] SnS Requests Anyone?

2008-11-14 Thread Adam van den Hoven
On 14-Nov-08, at 3:01 PM, Chris Parrish wrote: Adam van den Hoven wrote: support for external libraries I really just want 1 tag to use for all these assets they can be always as link If you really want to be cool, know ahead of time all the important libraries and their versions (kinda

Re: [Radiant] Importing Exporting

2008-11-13 Thread Adam van den Hoven
On 13-Nov-08, at 2:00 PM, Chris Parrish wrote: * It's simple (read: non-technical users love it) * It's db-independent so if my local development environment is Sqlite3 but my server is MySQL or PostgreSQL (or I want to change databases/servers some day) it's no sweat to move

Re: [Radiant] SnS Requests Anyone?

2008-11-13 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Things I would like: something like a separate field for copyright notices so that you can minimize the JS/CSS without loosing (someone else's) copyright notice. support for external libraries I really just want 1 tag to use for all these assets they can be always as link If you really want to

Re: [Radiant] Articles extension

2008-11-13 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Be very careful about this before you go down this road. You may put in more effort than you get put of it. That being said, I'd look at the archive extension. This is probably the route you want to take: modifying the behaviour of a page. This should play well with pages. Adam On

Re: [Radiant] Page Attributes (was: So how did things go this weekend?)

2008-10-29 Thread Adam van den Hoven
On 29-Oct-08, at 7:21 AM, Josh French wrote: We have a Tag Library that will write out a value of a named attribute, assume the value of the attribute is the path to a JSP and include it, and others that let us do conditional logic (if attribute Foo has a value of bar do this else do that).

Re: [Radiant] So how did things go this weekend?

2008-10-28 Thread Adam van den Hoven
This is a brilliant idea. I know because I thought of it first ;). In our J2EE application we have a similar concept where any page can have an arbitrary collection of named attributes and we have code that can work with that code. We have a Tag Library that will write out a value of a

Re: [Radiant] Weekly wacky suggestion

2008-10-25 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Jay, I think its a good idea to make things unambiguous but taggs just feels wrong. Why not reuse taglib from J2EE? They're basically the same thing as our tags Sent from my iPhone On 25-Oct-08, at 5:56 AM, Jay Levitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The term tags is, of necessity, overloaded

Re: [Radiant] [ANN] Conditional Tags Extension

2008-10-24 Thread Adam van den Hoven
On 23-Oct-08, at 9:46 PM, Chris Parrish wrote: Adam van den Hoven wrote: What I mean is: 1) I decide to use your tag instead of creating my own special purpose if_ and unless tags. I document it in my README 2) Like some existing extensions do, I inject a page or a snippet or a layout

Re: [Radiant] [ANN] Conditional Tags Extension

2008-10-23 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Chris, I love the idea you've got going here. I haven't had a chance to try it but I have a few thoughts: While the proliferation of tags can be bad for users, Radiant lacks any mechanism for ensuring dependancies are installed making using this extension within my own potentially

Re: [Radiant] Re: script/extension install in production mode

2008-10-13 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Ben, If you look at the article on setting up radiant on Dreamhost, you'll see that I only install Ray using script/extension and after that I would use: rake production ray:ext name=gallery hub=pilu fullname=radiant-gallery There is nothing special about DH in this respect, I would

Re: [Radiant] Re: [Radiant-Dev] Installing Radiant on Dreamhost with SSH

2008-10-10 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Clearly the wiki likes me better ;) On 10-Oct-08, at 9:14 AM, Tim Gossett wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Tim Gossett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made a couple minor edits to streamline the process. Thanks, Adam. Well, nevermind... my edits didn't work. -- Tim

Re: [Radiant] [Radiant-Dev] Installing Radiant on Dreamhost with SSH

2008-10-10 Thread Adam van den Hoven
On 10-Oct-08, at 8:54 AM, Tim Gossett wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Adam van den Hoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've put a new article on the wiki at http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Install_Dreamhost_Using_SSH that outlines how to get radiant running directly on dreamhost without

Re: [Radiant] Using one filter by default

2008-10-02 Thread Adam van den Hoven
I wonder if it would be possible to hook up the rake tasks for Ray to the UI (at least for those of us who aren't in a load balanced, multiple server situation) such that clicking the Disable button calls rake ray:dis name=some-extension and the Enable button calls rake ray:en

Re: [Radiant] Re: google analytics as extension

2008-10-01 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Jasper, I believe that Marcus' point was that instead of hard coding it into the HTML, that you write some JavaScript code to do it for you. Something like this should be more than fast enough for your needs: (function (){ //Always isolate your JavaScript from the global scope var

Re: [Radiant] How to turn off markdown filter in Radiant 0.6.9 instance

2008-09-22 Thread Adam van den Hoven
On 22-Sep-08, at 1:46 PM, Sean Cribbs wrote: Jason Garber wrote: If you have a Radiant instance running off the 0.6.9 gems, how can you disable the markdown extension? I don't want my users to have the option of using Markdown or SmartyPants text filters. It used to be that you could

Re: [Radiant] [ANN] Radiant Template Contest

2008-09-19 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Maybe we need to run a T-Shirt Design contest first/simultaneously. The winner could get a copy of the winning theme... printed on a T- Shirt. :) Adam On 18-Sep-08, at 9:03 PM, Sean Cribbs wrote: Steven Southard wrote: I'd love to win the contest and have my design included in upcoming

Re: [Radiant] New metatags for keywords, description feature

2008-08-22 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Jim, Where I work, I designed our system such that we have an in-memory representation of all the nodes in our site which was (somewhat) independent of the index.jsp that defines the node. We hang a lot of metadata off these nodes, a lot of which is inferred. This lets us do things like

Re: [Radiant] Re: Disabled tabs in radiant backend

2008-08-07 Thread Adam van den Hoven
I think you've hit on something. its probably reasonable to assume that the common default installation is going to be someone who's using it for their own website. One user means one role so take the admin/developer/user behaviour out and move everything into an extension. That extension

Re: [Radiant] Re: Re: Disabled tabs in radiant backend

2008-08-07 Thread Adam van den Hoven
not) properly belongs there? A On 7-Aug-08, at 10:36 AM, Arik Jones wrote: Adam van den Hoven wrote: I think you've hit on something. its probably reasonable to assume that the common default installation is going to be someone who's using it for their own website. One user means one role so take

Re: [Radiant] Re: Radiant Browser Support -- Drop IE6?

2008-07-21 Thread Adam van den Hoven
On 21-Jul-08, at 12:42 PM, Tim Gossett wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, David Piehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Parrish wrote: Would anyone be left out if Radiant failed to support IE 6? I vote to drop IE6 to coincide with the new Radiant UI release and move IE6 support to

Re: [Radiant] Radiant Browser Support -- Drop IE6?

2008-07-21 Thread Adam van den Hoven
You might want to try this: http://ajaxian.com/archives/iepngfix-2-now-supports-css-background-position-and-repeat I haven't tried it but it looks promising. Adam On 21-Jul-08, at 1:35 PM, Chris Parrish wrote: I can get PNGs to work just fine with IE 6 via pngfix.js or just using IE's

Re: [Radiant] Radiant Browser Support -- Drop IE6?

2008-07-19 Thread Adam van den Hoven
I say release without IE6 support and then create a Legacy Admin UI extension to add support for IE 7, WebTV and other fringe user agents. Adam On 19-Jul-08, at 12:49 PM, Sean Cribbs wrote: I'm of the opinion that IE6 is going the way of the dinosaur. Unless your client absolutely needs

Re: [Radiant] Forum extension?

2008-07-10 Thread Adam van den Hoven
Since were green fielding this: Threaded Moderable Sticky Posts Post Types (question, announce, etc, = configurable list) Multiple Fora (Forums?) Forums in arbitrary places (maybe I have an corporate internal site with section for each project, I might

Re: [Radiant] Forum extension?

2008-07-10 Thread Adam van den Hoven
At this point would it not make sense to extend the user system to support Open ID? On 10-Jul-08, at 8:11 PM, Mohit Sindhwani wrote: Josh Schairbaum wrote: I'd be more willing to help write something that would sync user accounts between radiant and beast. :) Not-optimal, but probably

Re: [Radiant] if_content with inherit

2008-07-08 Thread Adam van den Hoven
time to consider the pros and cons and to allow anyone to jump in with ideas before I get too far. I'd appreciate more feedback. On Jul 7, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Adam van den Hoven wrote: There are few things that make me more grumpy that empty elements that server no useful purpose. I'd love

Re: [Radiant] if_content with inherit

2008-07-08 Thread Adam van den Hoven
I have to agree with Tim in this. I'm traditionally bad at picking names for things like attributes but I think that its critical that the meaning be clear; Find and collect strike me as being ambiguous, I though of require but that's overloading an important word. Adam On 8-Jul-08, at

Re: [Radiant] if_content with inherit

2008-07-07 Thread Adam van den Hoven
There are few things that make me more grumpy that empty elements that server no useful purpose. I'd love it. On 7-Jul-08, at 12:56 PM, Jim Gay wrote: Is there any interest in adding the inherit attribute to the if_content tag? In some instances I'll find the need to output something like