I have been thinking about Rails modularity quite a bit and it’s
interesting to see that there are quite a few approaches at it—Engines,
Appable Plugins, Cells, etc. John has expressed this concern on a
lacking standard.
http://wiseheartdesign.com/2006/12/6/rails-needs-something-better-than-engin
Actually, the Radiant Extension approach has perfectly met my needs so
far. There are some minor things that I think could be improved, but
overall, I really like the approach used in Radiant. I've found it very
easy to transplant existing Rails mini-apps into Radiant Extensions
especially be
I have been on .6.4 for some time and have grown my codebase
substantially, having about a dozen custom extensions and a half dozen
plugins. Recently, I have attempted to move to the latest version
(.6.9) but I am having a rough go of it. (I have even moved some of my
extensions from "vendor" to
