# Radiant extension vs rails plugin

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-extension-vs-rails-plugin/108414>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [July 3, 2007, 9:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-extension-vs-rails-plugin/108414 "2007-07-03T09:30:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![beddhu\_murali](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@beddhu\_murali](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/beddhu_murali)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 9:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-extension-vs-rails-plugin/108414/1 "2007-07-03T09:30:22Z")

</div>

Hi, What is the difference between a radiant extension and a rails  
plugin?

Bijah

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![beddhu\_murali](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@beddhu\_murali](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/beddhu_murali)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-extension-vs-rails-plugin/108414/2 "2007-07-03T17:49:53Z")

</div>

Rails plugins are designed to extend or modify the Rails framework,  
Radiant extensions modify the Radiant application (which is a Rails  
app). In a sense, they do similar things, extensions just have some  
easy hooks into Radiant and their initialization routines, etc, are  
quite different.

Sean

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![beddhu\_murali](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@beddhu\_murali](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/beddhu_murali)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-extension-vs-rails-plugin/108414/3 "2007-07-16T20:25:53Z")

</div>

Sean C. wrote:

> Rails plugins are designed to extend or modify the Rails framework,  
> Radiant extensions modify the Radiant application (which is a Rails  
> app). In a sense, they do similar things, extensions just have some  
> easy hooks into Radiant and their initialization routines, etc, are  
> quite different.

On initialization. Plugins are loaded as the Rails framework is being  
loaded, but before most of the Radiant application code is loaded.  
Radiant extensions are loaded after the application code is loaded.

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)