# Radiant powered website and my experience developing it

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-powered-website-and-my-experience-developing-it/105324>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [May 28, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-powered-website-and-my-experience-developing-it/105324 "2007-05-28T20:46:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![raphael\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7c8e57/32.png) [@raphael\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raphael_b)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-powered-website-and-my-experience-developing-it/105324/1 "2007-05-28T20:46:03Z")

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Hi,

It’s been some time I’ve started this website and I’m happy to be able  
to share it with you now:

> **[Home / Profoss - Profoss](https://profoss-eu.pages.dev/)**
>
> Content Management System

It’s a website the Profoss that organises events for professional  
users of Free and Open Source software. It uses 2 extensions I have  
developed: one for the “Send to a friend” action, and one for  
registration.

I’m quite happy with Radiant. Here are some notes based on my  
experience. Please take this a constructive remarks:

- I’ve lost some time searching for some simple things when developing  
my extensions, eg the possibility to use no\_login\_required in a  
controller. Is it undocumented or did I miss it?
- you can’t use a radiant layout for your extension views
- I often test layouts and other ideas on a development version of the  
site. When working with files, it’s very easy to transfer your  
modification with eg rsync. Working with everything in the database  
makes it harder. If I find the time (which is not sure at all), this  
is something I would look into.
- I’m happy I took the time to develop the vim extension for radiant  
([http://www.raphinou.com/radiant.vim/](http://www.raphinou.com/radiant.vim/)), it saved me a lot of time!
- I’m wondering if it’s possible to use a layout hierarchy: I use one  
layout for the whole site, but each speaker’s page content has the  
same structure. Could I use a layout for the page’s content, which is  
wrapped in the main layout?

Cheers

Raph

–  
Web database: [http://www.myowndb.com](http://www.myowndb.com)  
Free Software Developers Meeting: [http://www.fosdem.org](http://www.fosdem.org)

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**Author:** ![raphael\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7c8e57/32.png) [@raphael\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raphael_b)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 8:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-powered-website-and-my-experience-developing-it/105324/2 "2007-05-29T08:34:02Z")

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The Radiant layout is the default. I found it was active immediately.  
Perhaps it works when you do not write a layout yourself?

Regards,  
Erik.

Raphael B. wrote:

> - you can’t use a radiant layout for your extension views

–  
Erik van Oosten  
[http://2007.rubyenrails.nl/](http://2007.rubyenrails.nl/)

> **[Day to day stuff](http://day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/)**
>
> Experiences from a hard core JVM programmer. Likes to keep things simple.