We forked Drag Order extension, a cool extension for Radiant CMS, and fixed some stuff. What we didn’t take into account in our last fix was this case: 1) Create new pages, or import a data set with a ton of new pages 2) Try to reorder a page. Turns out, the way it’s written, [...]
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using pluralize in a radiant custom page
December 13, 2009 - 10:32 am
I’m working on extending the custom tags in the radiant-search-extension. Radiant tags are really a lot like Rails views, but they don’t have access to the view helpers. After learning how to call helpers outside of views, I simply added this method to my custom page: def pluralize(*args) ActionController::Base.helpers.pluralize *args end
PostGres & MySQL Fixes For Drag Order Extension (for Radiant CMS)
December 8, 2009 - 12:03 pm
We were experiencing an odd behavior with the very popular Drag Order extension. This extension allows you to re-order your pages in the Admin screen, and for that new order to be reflected in any loop on the front end, also via the children tag. The aberrant behavior appears when you add a new page. [...]
PostGres & MySQL Fixes For Drag Order Extension (for Radiant CMS)
December 8, 2009 - 12:03 pm
We were experiencing an odd behavior with the very popular Drag Order extension. This extension allows you to re-order your pages in the Admin screen, and for that new order to be reflected in any loop on the front end, also via the children tag. The aberrant behavior appears when you add a new page. [...]
Radiant CMS: Improving Drag & Order
December 2, 2009 - 11:19 am
In the Radiant administration interface, we wanted to allow our CMS users to be able to move pages around and have that final order in the navigation. Well, that is solved by an existing extension- the Drag and Order by Bright4. We decided to change the icon to make it jump out more, and to [...]
Radiant CMS: Improving Drag & Order
December 2, 2009 - 11:19 am
In the Radiant administration interface, we wanted to allow our CMS users to be able to move pages around and have that final order in the navigation. Well, that is solved by an existing extension- the Drag and Order by Bright4. We decided to change the icon to make it jump out more, and to [...]
Radiant CMS: Custom user permissions
November 22, 2009 - 2:30 pm
Radiant has two built in user roles, administrator and developer, and the permissions on these roles cannot be configured. If your Radiant project demands more fine grained permission controls than those provided you must implement them with custom code. Fortunately Radiant provides several hooks into the code that allow us to do this. In this [...]
Simple Email Form with ActionMailer
November 17, 2009 - 11:33 pm
Working with ActionMailer is a bit different from working with ActiveRecord. While it makes sense to me that you would have a model for the data of the email message you send, the flow of control seems inverted from the rest of Rails. With ActionMailer call the model from the controller, then the model triggers [...]
origins of a company name
October 27, 2009 - 5:32 pm
This summer I hired an intern who worked with me pair programming at my home office. One of the first projects we did together was an iPhone application using the Rhomobile framework for which we created a mocked up set of web services with Ruby on Rails. We deployed the web app on Heroku, which [...]
Hello world!
August 21, 2009 - 8:10 am
Blazing Cloud website is now available. We’ll post company news and technical tips from our work in this space.