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On migrations, I'm wondering if we should take a different approach.
Perhaps each extension should just generate the necessary migrations?

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Sean Schofield
<sean.schofield@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have several thoughts on how to approach this but the client work is
> getting insane again.  I'll take a rough stab at this sometime soon
> and report back what I find.  Basically I think we can use Rails3 for
> most everything.  We just need to understand more about the
> limitations or gotchas that require additional spree/radiant hacks.
> With any luck its nothing and this is just an exercise in proving
> that.
>
> Sean Schofield
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Travis D Warlick Jr
> <warlickt@operissystems.com> wrote:
>> I think this is a wonderful idea.  In my walk-throughs of new Rails 3 code,
>> I've noticed a number of things that Rails now has .  Count me in for help.
>>
>> I'd like to throw out an idea (which may require a new thread, but I'll
>> start it here since it's closely related): Radiant/spree as a plugin gem.  I
>> have a very large upcoming project.  It needs a CMS, but it also needs
>> functionality that Radiant isn't the best choice for.  Currently, I'm forced
>> to write two apps, which doesn't sit well with me.
>>
>> Here's my hypotheses on the benefits of using a plugin gem:
>>
>> * Passenger memory savings with smart spawning.
>> * Built-in support for extension dependencies.
>> * radiant command offload to rails -m <radiant-install-script>
>>  - easy integration of "radiant-more" via install scripts?
>>  - radiant-more install script repository, similiar to ext.radiantcms.org?
>>
>> Thoughts? Criticisms?
>>
>> -- Travis Warlick
>>
>> On 3/26/10 7:48 PM, Sean Schofield wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to introduce myself.  My name is Sean Schofield, and I'm the
>>> creator of the Spree e-commerce project.  Spree has an extension
>>> system very similar to the one in Radiant.  Actually we based our
>>> extension system on the one in Radiant and received some very helpful
>>> insight from Sean Cribbs at the time.
>>>
>>> Now that Rails3 is rolling around we're finding ourselves discussing
>>> the future of extensions.  We're planning on taking a serious look at
>>> this issue starting a few weeks from now.  One of the guys on the
>>> Spree core team suggested that we might want to reach out to the
>>> Radiant devs to see if they were interested in working together on
>>> this problem.  A side benefit would be that it could become easier to
>>> integrate Spree and Radiant for sites that require both e-commerce and
>>> CMS.
>>>
>>> So I wanted to ask if there was any interest in working on a common
>>> solution for implementing Radiant/Spree style extensions in Rails3.  I
>>> was thinking we might want to create a separate github project for the
>>> purposes of exploring this.  It could serve as a starting point for
>>> exploring the concept but maybe it could evolve into a stand-alone gem
>>> dependency that would work with Radiant or Spree.
>>>
>>> Is there any interest in exploring this together from the Radiant
>>> community?
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>
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