Glad you got it working, sounds cool! What I would suggest to alleviate your conflicts with ApplicationController and ApplicationHelper is to extract your differences into modules that you can store in an extension and include into each of those classes at activation time. This will allow Radiant's built-in stuff to still work, but will also allow you to change things that you need to get ActiveScaffold working.
Sean Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > Hello, > Im creating a Frankenstein CMS with ActiveScaffold & Radiant. > The two softwares complement each other very nicely. > ActiveScaffold handling multiples of items like press releases, products > etc. > Radiant handling one-off pages and simple items like blog posts. > > My first goal is just to have both running in the same application, so I can > create a simple uberadmin page that will allow users to use one or the other > tool. This appears to be working. > > Finally having some success I thought Iwould post it here for anyone else > who might be interested in the same thing. However I am new to > Rails/Radiant/ActiveScaffold and have not yet considered the security or > other more advanced implications of this merger. > > In the near future I am hoping to add RecordTags extension so that the > Radiant pages can actually display the information being added to the DB by > ActiveScaffold. > I also hope to add ActsAsTaggable_OnSteroids to the ActiveScaffold admin. > > My implementation follows. I welcome any comments and criticisms!!!! > > In a nutshell: Used Radiant_On_Rails extension so that ActiveScaffold > controllers could be accessed at all, since be default, Radiant will only > accept urls that map to pages in its own system. > > > Install radiant via GEM. > o OK > > Create Radiant project via Radiant command. > o OK > > Create separate ActiveScaffold project and get it working. Have it use the > same DB as the Radiant project. > o OK > > Add "app" directory from ActiveScaffold project to Radiant project > Copy plugin directory from ActiveScaffold to Radiant project. > Copy files from "public" directory from ActiveScaffold to Radiant project. > (like images/javascript/stylesheet files...) > Visit website. > o Received 505 > o Dev LOG Shows: uninitialized constant > ApplicationController::ActiveScaffold > > Renamed app/application.rb to app/application_DISABLED.rb . > o Works. Problem was that Radiant has its own application.rb in the GEM. > (Is there a better way to handle this, so that both app/application.rb files > get run?) > > Visit admin section in web browser: > o NoMethodError in Admin/page#index > o Showing admin/page/_node.rhtml where line #10 raised: > o undefined method `image' for #<#<Class:0x4a16860>:0x4a16838> > o (In cannot find the image method which is defined in: > RADIANT_ROOT/app/helpers/application_helper.rb) > > Renamed app/helpers/application_helper.rb to application_helper_DISABLED.rb > . > o Works (Again, problem was that Radiant has its own > application_helper.rb in the GEM. (Is there a better way to handle this, so > that both app/application.rb files get run?) > > Install Radiant_on_rails Radiant extension. Make changes to routes.rb / > extensions.rb & copy extension to extension directory. > o Radiant still works. > o I am successfully able to configure a "custom" controller in the app > directory and reach it with the web browser. Yes! > > Now try to get ActiveScaffold to work. > Copy code that was at the top of > ActiveScaffold_ROOT/app/controllers/application.rb to the top of my > controller for my model (which is called "category".) > Try browsing to localhost/3000/category > o Radiant returns: "item not found" message. > > Make change to routes.rb (specially formatted for Radiant_On_Rails.) > class RailsRoutes > def self.define_routes(map) > map.connect ':controller/:action/:id' > end > end > > o Everything seems to work! Radiant generated website, Radiant Admin, > ActiveScaffold pages, my Custom pages. > (Is there something wrong with having such a liberal routing??) > > > -topher > > ps. > Its been difficult for me. This post helped alot - basically suggesting to > use Radiant_On_Rails: > http://groups.google.com/group/radiantcms-dev/browse_thread/thread/c605fe74cd23f175/122957d72f975e91#122957d72f975e91 > > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
