# Modifying Radiant?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modifying-radiant/130385>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 27, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modifying-radiant/130385 "2008-02-27T21:26:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agilehack)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modifying-radiant/130385/1 "2008-02-27T21:26:08Z")

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I have a local copy of Radiant CMS and would like to try extending/  
changing it in two ways - need a little help, or at least pointed in  
the right direction in the code.

1. I would like to modify things such that the edit page (main work  
area) and the file tree (tree structure of pages) are on the same  
page . I.E. the page hierarchy is on the left and the edit view is in  
the middle. Can you help me get started with this? what files would  
need to be modified etc?

2. I would like to ultimately use this CMS to update the content of a  
site by sending the data(content, changes …) to the site via FTP. So  
I am thinking instead of just rendering to the screen, to somehow FTP  
the updates or complete site data to ultimate location, some other  
site. Does this make sense? So I guess instead of just ‘publish’ or  
‘view site’, I need to create the ability to FTP and send the  
information to another location. Can you help me get started with  
this? What file would I insert such a method or logic and what might  
this FTP code look like? Seems like with Rails it might be easy to  
simply add a method that somehow wraps all the data pertaining to a  
site being controlled by Radiant and FTP’ing that information  
somewhere.

But I am new to Radiant and Rails for that matter, so your help would  
be hugely appreciated!

JR

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**Author:** ![agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agilehack)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modifying-radiant/130385/2 "2008-03-05T03:17:10Z")

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I did and got no reply ☹

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**Author:** ![agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agilehack)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modifying-radiant/130385/3 "2008-03-02T15:17:23Z")

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agilehack wrote:

> 1. I would like to ultimately use this CMS to update the content of a  
> somewhere.
> 
> But I am new to Radiant and Rails for that matter, so your help would  
> be hugely appreciated!
> 
> JR

JR, you should post this to the Radiant mailing list. It’s a helpful  
place. The link is available from the [radiantcms.org](http://radiantcms.org) site.

Cheers,  
Mohit.  
3/2/2008 | 10:16 PM.