rubyonrailsin

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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