# Combined rss feed and more? **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [January 27, 2007, 11:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/combined-rss-feed-and-more/83595 "2007-01-27T11:11:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 11:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/combined-rss-feed-and-more/83595/1 "2007-01-27T11:11:15Z")
Hello, I’m new to this list, I’m new to Radiant, and I’m new to Ruby on Rails. I am programmer and interface designer and I’m not new to working with a cms - I’ve even created one of my own that had a very similar philosophy to Radiant, but build in java and templated using XSLT. Now I’ve decided to create my own personal page using Radiant, and I love how easy it was to set it all up. I have a few peices left before I’m done and I’m wondering if anyone would like to help me out: 1. Should I use Mental? Thanks to Sean C. for the blog post - it cleared up most questions, but not all of them. Will I be able to migrate my data as Mental evolves? What extensions are already released? I want comments and tagging/ keywords. 2. I’ve been tinkering with a hierarchical blog-like structure, like this: smpl.se/ - rss smpl.se/things - archive - rss - [posts] smpl.se/thoughts - archive - rss - [posts] I want separate rss-feeds for “things” and “thoughts” - which works perfectly. I also want a combined rss-feed at smpl.se/rss that recurses down and aggregates all the updates. My first approach was to just use the sample code provided in the styled blog and point it to “/” instead of “articles”. This doesn’t work - I suspect it goes into some kind of loop beacause my server goes all huffy and puffy and has to be restarted. Right now I have glued it together by just hardcoding first “things” then “thoughts”, but I would like the combined feed to be chronological instead. I would also like to be able to add new ‘categories’ without having to update the feed page. Is there some really smart and pretty way to recurse downwards, picking out new pages (but skipping stuff like rss and archives), creating a chornological feed of the latest new pages on the whole site? Radiant is looking really good. It seems _almost_ perfect for smpl.se, and I’m willing to contribute to making it even better and customize it to my needs. Regards, Martin O. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/combined-rss-feed-and-more/83595/2 "2007-01-27T12:58:30Z")
Hi, If I understand correctly, I have a similar need in creating XML pages based on content for “regular” HTML pages. Here’s one idead - how about creating something like: smpl.se/ smpl.se/things - archive - [posts] smpl.se/thoughts - archive - [posts] smpl.se/rss - thoughts\_rss - things\_rss - rss In this way, when you can recurse using r:find you’ll know if you are in the RSS or HTML section of the tree. In your rss files, you can pull in settings from pages (title, url, page parts, etc.). When you update the HTML pages, the RSS feeds will be automatically updated. More info on recursion- if I’m reading the source for the find tag correctly, the url attribute is used in a find\_by method. So, in this attribute, a regular expression that includes some things and not others will not be available for use. I’m fairly new too, so maybe/hopefully other people have ideas. Todd Quoting Martin O. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/combined-rss-feed-and-more/83595/3 "2007-01-27T14:15:39Z")
Hi Todd, Thanks for the suggestion. That cold actually be a rather good solution. I’d have: smpl.se/things smpl.se/thoughts smpl.se/rss \<- combined smpl.se/rss/things smpl.se/rss/thoughts Pretty, no? Sometimes the simplest solution is the nicest one. Thanks! /Martin removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/combined-rss-feed-and-more/83595/4 "2007-01-28T13:56:13Z")
Yeah, I’ve been looking at Mephisto as well, but I like the “philosophy” behind Radiant more. I couldn’t really get my head around how Mephisto worked. Radiant seems cleaner, at the expense of less functions like comments and stuff. If you really want to convince me I’ll be standing by for the Mephisto sales pitch . . . Regards, Martin smpl.se ---
**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/combined-rss-feed-and-more/83595/5 "2007-01-28T00:37:54Z")
Martin, I’m the biggest fan of Radiant, but mephisto does exactly what you want and is probably a better match for you. Just my $.02USD BJ Clark ---
**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/combined-rss-feed-and-more/83595/6 "2007-01-29T01:43:28Z")
Hey all! Just wondering if anyone has a solution for me. Your help would be GREATLY appreciated! Andrew ---
**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/combined-rss-feed-and-more/83595/7 "2007-01-28T18:03:09Z")
Hello all! Still getting a hang of this all and just looking for some input;insight. I’ve been running a fairly simple design of Radiant (Read: almost source) and want to expand the design a little. Here is kind of what I want to do: - Home (Shows either just News or all of the heading, chronilogically) – — News — Articles — Tutorials – Downloads – Gallery – RSS (Covers chronologically the news/articles/tutorial tree) — RSS \ I just need some insight on how to do the RSS feeds. Also, curious if you could include ‘categories’ somehow or ‘tags’ for each Sub under all the categories. As well, wondering if there is plans for a commenting system. Originally, when I was looking at using Radiant, I seemed to remember there being a third-party site for including managable comment system and as such I was going to use that, but so far the only one available is pretty crappy that I can find (Don’t have link; I left pretty digusted at it) Sorry for the ignorance right now. I am just trying to get up and going again and having a duck of a time. Thanks for all the patience! Andrew ---
**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/combined-rss-feed-and-more/83595/8 "2007-01-29T17:10:05Z")
Andrew K. wrote: > — Tutorials > – Downloads > – Gallery > – RSS (Covers chronologically the news/articles/tutorial tree) > — RSS \ > > I just need some insight on how to do the RSS feeds. Also, curious if > you could include ‘categories’ somehow or ‘tags’ for each Sub under all > the categories. Presently, there is not an easy way to provide a list of articles from a tree. You can list a page’s immediate children with the \ tag, but you will probably need to create a custom tag if you want to display an entire branch of a tree. > As well, wondering if there is plans for a commenting system. Commenting is scheduled to be incorporated in the release following the next release. The focus of the next release is the extension system. The focus of the following release is blogging. I believe Sean C. has done some work on a commenting extension. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/combined-rss-feed-and-more/83595/9 "2007-01-29T17:40:15Z")
Alright…Radiant (and its mailing list) has been gathering so much interest that I’m switching my subs to digest mode – in case I don’t respond immediately.