# Bring values from database

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bring-values-from-database/76807>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [November 21, 2006, 11:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bring-values-from-database/76807 "2006-11-21T11:43:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![john-anes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@john-anes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john-anes)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 11:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bring-values-from-database/76807/1 "2006-11-21T11:43:51Z")

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Hi,

i am very new to ROR, and hoping to convert my organizations web-site  
which is in .php format to a radiant cms on the local machine, and  
managed to get it work for static contents, but the problem is… on a  
particular webpage we bring certain values from the database  
dynamically, whereas in radiant each and every content is from the  
radiant\_dev database, is there a possibility of adding another database  
or the table to the existing structure of the radiant\_dev database and  
bring the dynamic value to a web page or is there any other solution to  
bring data dynamically. thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![john-anes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@john-anes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john-anes)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bring-values-from-database/76807/2 "2006-11-21T14:45:08Z")

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That kind of issue is the thing that the “mental” branch, and evenutally  
release 0.6, attempts to solve. In my day job I’m currently working on  
a  
bunch of “extensions” for Radiant to use on the college website.  
However,  
our release date is looming and not all of the legacy Perl and PHP forms  
will be converted by then. The solution we decided on was to either  
point  
the new website to the old form until it was converted, or include it in  
an