# Help with the docs?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-the-docs/71846>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [October 11, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-the-docs/71846 "2006-10-11T20:37:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-the-docs/71846/1 "2006-10-11T20:37:55Z")

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I offered to help with the documentation a couple of days ago on  
radiant-docs and didn’t get a reply, maybe because no one looks at that  
list. Anyhow, I’d still like to help with the docs.

Allen

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**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-the-docs/71846/2 "2006-10-11T20:46:16Z")

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On 11/10/06, Allen [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I offered to help with the documentation a couple of days ago on  
> radiant-docs and didn’t get a reply, maybe because no one looks at that  
> list. Anyhow, I’d still like to help with the docs.

Awesome!

John asked me to take an official role for documentation a couple of  
weeks ago, as I’ve been putting stuff from the list into the wiki.

I’ve been busy working this month, but next month is quieter and I  
hope to be productive then; the handbook is the first thing I want to  
look at.

Sorry I missed the posts to the docs list,

–  
Regards,  
Dave

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**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 10:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-the-docs/71846/3 "2006-10-18T10:38:44Z")

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For a couple of weeks I’ve been hunting for the absolute best way to  
extend Radiant to handle the presentation of an event calendar.

After much going back and forth I finally settled on implementing it  
as a series of new global tags in a plugin a la: http://  
[radiantcms.org/blog/2006/09/14/how-to-create-global-tags-in-a-](http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/09/14/how-to-create-global-tags-in-a-)  
plugin. I’ve copied my needed Event models into this plugin as well.  
This has gotten me pretty far. I’ve got my \<r:calendar… and child  
\<r:event… tag which allow me to pull any set of events and present  
them in anyway I need anywhere throughout the site. Great! However I  
have hit a couple of road blocks:

1. I’ve created attributes to select a set of event based on a date  
range, a number of days, etc. This will allow me to create separate  
pages for different date time periods. However, I’d much prefer to  
have a form which allow users to select the date range or categories  
of events to display.

Is there a way to access form get parameters from within the  
Behavior::Base.define\_tags? Has anyone came-up with an elegant way to  
handle this sort of thing?

1. Currently I’m handling migrations on my own models by just  
generating them directly in the Radiant app. I figure I’ll have to do  
some migration re-numbering when a new Radiant release includes it’s  
own migrations. Anybody have a better solution for handling  
migrations of custom models from within a plugin or without  
interfering with the Radiant installation?

\*\*\* I’m implementing this Calendar into Radiant in this hodge-podge  
manner now with the educated assumption that I’ll eventually be able  
to re-factor it and have it directly “plug-in” to Radiant (on the  
admin tab) and that the incorporation of a custom data model will be  
accomodated in some manner. Notice I didn’t ask for a custom view or  
controler (yet). Am I assuming too much?

Thoughts and solutions embraced,

Loren J.  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 10:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-the-docs/71846/4 "2006-10-18T10:40:27Z")

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Hi Allen!

On 11/10/06, Allen [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I offered to help with the documentation a couple of days ago on  
> radiant-docs and didn’t get a reply, maybe because no one looks at that  
> list. Anyhow, I’d still like to help with the docs.

Awesome!

John asked me to take an official role for documentation a couple of  
weeks ago, as I’ve been putting stuff from the list into the wiki.

I’ve been busy working this month, but next month is quieter and I  
hope to be productive then; the handbook is the first thing I want to  
look at.

Sorry I missed the posts to the docs list,

–  
Regards,  
Dave

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**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 10:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-the-docs/71846/5 "2006-10-18T10:38:48Z")

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While I don’t have any time to help right now, I’m very interested in  
an event calendar for my own eventual use of Radiant (my car club’s  
track days and such).

Having a ‘calendar view’ that can be called from this event calendar,  
which has children that are the individual events, would be ideal.

Please keep the list posted on this!