Making a public controller in an extension

Ruby Apps Radiant CMS
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I have a simple extension with a controller that I want to be publicly
accessible. The problem is that when I access it, it uses the admin
layout. How do I get the views from my controller to render in the my
site layout as defined by the “Layouts” tab?

It seems to work just fine otherwise, but obviously, the admin layout is
not something I want to show to the public.

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Alex W. wrote:

I have a simple extension with a controller that I want to be publicly
accessible. The problem is that when I access it, it uses the admin
layout. How do I get the views from my controller to render in the my
site layout as defined by the “Layouts” tab?

It seems to work just fine otherwise, but obviously, the admin layout is
not something I want to show to the public.

After some hacking and reverse engineering the Radiant rendering code, I
managed to come up with this rediculous hack:

http://pastie.caboo.se/206357

That is probably just about the ugliest thing ever. I tried doing a:

@page.parts.new(:name => ‘body’, :content => render_to_string)

But that just left me with blank content. So gsubbing the <r:content />
tag for the actual rendered template was the next best thing.

Maybe I am completely missing the radiant golden path here. Should I
write some radius tags that will let me access this data in a page
object instead? If so, how do I access the params[:id] in order to
retrieve the right objects from the database? And how do I make a page
render for a URL with a variable parameter?

Perhaps, I should create a page object via the admin with HTML, title,
layout, etc. Then set it up with a specific slug I can easily retrieve.
Then render that page with my own render_to_string as the body page part
content? Still seems weird to manually mess with a page object here to
achieve what seems to be a simple thing.

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Have you considered the share_layouts extension?

http://dev.radiantcms.org/browser/trunk/extensions/share_layouts/README

It’s designed for this purpose.

–
John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com

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John W. Long wrote:

Have you considered the share_layouts extension?

http://dev.radiantcms.org/browser/trunk/extensions/share_layouts/README

It’s designed for this purpose.

–
John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com

Well that certainly makes things easier. Guess I need to do more
research and less late night caffeine induced hack sessions.

Thanks, it works like a charm.