Benny from Gorilla Webdesign talks about tuning your Basic advanced radiant application. Video of the presentation can be found here: http://vimeo.com/7691033

1. What you should also
know about Radiant
Part I: Extensions
Part II: Managing Radiant
Part III: Coming up in 0.9

2. Simple and sweet
Family-tree analogy
+ Radius
+ Radiant::Cache
+ Page Parts and Layouts
+ some experience to really get it
= super awesome CMS

3. Simple = sweet
but... what if I want it to do more?

4. 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)

5. Creating your own
script/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

6. Creating your own
script/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

7. Creating your own
script/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

8. Show ‘em how it’s done
• future_publishing
• wym_editor
• site_language

9. 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

10. Ray Extension

11. Shortcuts
alias 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;
}

12. Radiant 0.9 (RC)
Demo Blade UI & i18n

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

14. Easy form submit msgs
<form action="..." onsubmit_status="Saving Changes...">
... contents of form ...
</form>

15. Questions?