10.06
2010
 

Radiant the No Fluff just Stuff Rails CMS

Published on 10:56 by DI Edmund Haselwanter

Radiant is a Open Source Content Management System fir small Teams.

The current release (as of April 2011) is 0.9.1, heading to 1.0 very soon. Radiant features a powerful extension mechanism. Rails Developer can easily extend it to customer needs.

In its core Radiant features:

  • A slim and elegant user interface
  • felixble layouts with templateing, snippets, page parts and the powerful radius templateing language
  • a very powerful extension/plugin architecture
  • simple role based user authentication and authorization
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14.06
2010
 

Chef from Opscode and the Power of Ruby

Published on 11:01 by DI Edmund Haselwanter

Recent releases of chef from opscode provide a new resource: ruby_block

This is really great news as this allows for interesting problem solving.

Consider you want to do a very special HTTP request. E.g. a GET to localhost but with custom “Host” header information.

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