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RadiantOnRails is a Radiant extension I created to allow a Rails application to co-exist with Radiant, giving the developer the best of both (dynamic and static) worlds. You can now visit the new project page on RubyForge.

This extension will be a major piece for the website I'm currently working on, RealIdaho.com. Most of the pages for the site just display static content about cities, but there are other portions of the site that will be fully-dynamic Rails pages. This extension allows me to combine both portions of the site into one application so we can develop the Rails pages for displaying the data-driven pages and still leverage the wonderful user interface created by the Radiant team. This will allow the realtor to make content changes without me having to make code changes and redeploy.

RadiantOnRails currently allows Radiant snippets to be inserted into Rails views and the next step is to allow the Rails views to use the Radiant layouts so that the look 'n' feel of the site is consistent, while keeping the views DRY. I'll also be working with Loren Johnson to make Radiant available as a plugin which will make integrating Radiant with Rails even easier.