advanced radiant

What you should also know about Radiant

Part I: ExtensionsPart II: Managing RadiantPart III: Coming up in 0.9

Simple and sweet

Family-tree analogy+ Radius

+ Radiant::Cache+ Page Parts and Layouts

+ some experience to really get it= super awesome CMS

Simple = sweet

but... what if I want it to do more?

Meet Extensions

• to allow comments

• to have asset management

• to organise multi-language sites

• to tag pages (as in tag clouds)

• to provide a searchbox

• ... and so on (over 300 extensions on github)

Creating your ownscript/generate extension arrrr

script/generate extension_model arrrr Pirate name:string ship_id:integer treasure_count:integer

script/generate extension_model arrrr Treasure name:string pirate_id:integer value:integer

script/generate extension_controller arrrr admin/pirates

Creating your ownscript/generate extension arrrr

script/generate extension_model arrrr Pirate name:string ship_id:integer treasure_count:integer

script/generate extension_model arrrr Treasure name:string pirate_id:integer value:integer

script/generate extension_controller arrrr admin/pirates

Creating your ownscript/generate extension arrrr

script/generate extension_model arrrr Pirate name:string ship_id:integer treasure_count:integer

script/generate extension_model arrrr Treasure name:string pirate_id:integer value:integer

script/generate extension_controller arrrr admin/pirates

Show ‘em how it’s done

• future_publishing

• wym_editor

• site_language

Radiant kickstart script

• Creates a new Radiant instance

• Makes it a git repository

• Creates a local development and test database

• Installs all your favorite extensions through Ray

• Gives you a Capfile tailored to Radiant

Ray Extension

Shortcutsalias ue='update_extension'alias uae='update_all_extensions'function update_extension { rake ray:extension:update name=$1}function update_all_extensions { for dir in `ls vendor/extensions/`; ue $dir; done;}

Radiant 0.9 (RC)

Demo Blade UI & i18n

Easy JS popups

<a class="popup" href="#reference_window">Reference</a><div id="reference_window" style="display: none"> ... contents of window ...</div>

Easy form submit msgs

<form action="..." onsubmit_status="Saving Changes..."> ... contents of form ...</form>

Questions?