# Idea: implementing a MacFuse filesystem for editing **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [May 26, 2007, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/idea-implementing-a-macfuse-filesystem-for-editing/105160 "2007-05-26T11:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tobias\_Fors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Tobias\_Fors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tobias_Fors)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/idea-implementing-a-macfuse-filesystem-for-editing/105160/1 "2007-05-26T11:26:45Z")
Hi all, I’ve recently started a stealthy little project to try and move my company’s web site over to Radiant. Yesterday, while editing, it struck me how cool it would be to have a MacFuse file system interface for editing pages in Radiant. Has anyone else considered this, or even attempted an implementation? I don’t have the skills (yet…) to implement it myself, but darn it would be nice. I think - haven’t really thought that much about it. All the best Tobias – Tobias: [http://www.tobiasfors.se](http://www.tobiasfors.se) Citerus: [http://www.citerus.se](http://www.citerus.se) PNEHM!: [http://pnehm.citerus.se/](http://pnehm.citerus.se/) ---
**Author:** ![Tobias\_Fors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Tobias\_Fors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tobias_Fors)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/idea-implementing-a-macfuse-filesystem-for-editing/105160/2 "2007-05-27T00:42:59Z")
Tobias Fors wrote: > I’ve recently started a stealthy little project to try and move my > company’s web site over to Radiant. Yesterday, while editing, it > struck me how cool it would be to have a MacFuse file system interface > for editing pages in Radiant. > > Has anyone else considered this, or even attempted an implementation? > I don’t have the skills (yet…) to implement it myself, but darn it > would be nice. I think - haven’t really thought that much about it. I have thought about it, but rather doing something very platform dependent like (Mac)FUSE, I was considering an abstraction via WebDAV. It should be fairly straight forward, especially with Rails’s CRUD support. Unfortunately I have not got around doing it yet. WebDAV is probably the most flexible way of doing it as it is standardized, many file system browsers already provide hooks for it and you can mount it via FUSE. Let me know what you think. Cheers, Oliver ---
**Author:** ![Tobias\_Fors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Tobias\_Fors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tobias_Fors)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 8:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/idea-implementing-a-macfuse-filesystem-for-editing/105160/3 "2007-05-27T08:53:30Z")
Oliver: I haven’t really used WebDAV-tools, so can’t say much about it myself, but it sounds interesting, especially if support is wide. File system based editing from both Windows/Mac/Linux would be sweet. Do you have any ideas on how best to handle things like the “slug”, publish status, chosen filter, behavior etc? /T 2007/5/27, Oliver B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > I have thought about it, but rather doing something very platform > Oliver > > * * * > > Radiant mailing list > Post: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > Search: [http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/](http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/) > Site: [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) – Tobias: [http://www.tobiasfors.se](http://www.tobiasfors.se) Citerus: [http://www.citerus.se](http://www.citerus.se) PNEHM!: [http://pnehm.citerus.se/](http://pnehm.citerus.se/) ---
**Author:** ![Tobias\_Fors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Tobias\_Fors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tobias_Fors)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/idea-implementing-a-macfuse-filesystem-for-editing/105160/4 "2007-05-27T17:02:27Z")
Tobias Fors wrote: > I haven’t really used WebDAV-tools, so can’t say much about it myself, > but it sounds interesting, especially if support is wide. File system > based editing from both Windows/Mac/Linux would be sweet. > > Do you have any ideas on how best to handle things like the “slug”, > publish status, chosen filter, behavior etc? Hi Tobias, looking at other CMSs they typically try to wrap as much of the metadata into the metadata fields provided by the document, e.g. HTML metatags. This may not work well with Radiant because of its special document structure consisting of parts. However, one could always use YAML or a similar text-based format as a page’s file representation. For example: # behavior:Page # status:draft # title:Test Page # part:body # filter:textile h1. Part with Textile content # part:extended # filter: Part with raw HTML The slug could just be represented by the filename. This model, however, does not directly support pages that have children, i.e. act like directories. To support this each page may be represented as a directory containing a file “index” or “content” that reflects the content and metadata of the page. Alternatively, a page’s content and properties can represented as a set of files within the directory. Example: homepage/ ± @status ± @behavior ± @title ± @part.body ± @part.extended ± child1 | ± @status | ± @behavior | … ± child2 ± @status … Eventually some of the properties may be combined into a single file called @metadata or similar. Those are just some preliminary thoughts which hopefully will generate more ideas. I personally favor the first approach as it allows easier support of other document types such as images or PDF files. Let me know what you think. Oliver