17 Feb

Radiant to Merb

Merb is a (future) great framework. Radiant is good CMS. And they have so much in common. I’m curious about porting Radiant to Merb then I started the challenge. For people interested in the same challenge, I set up a repository. Then please feel free to participate.

[update]

I got invited on github then I cloned the git repository to http://github.com/sbusso/merb_radiant/tree/master

Action plan:

Merb is a framework equivalent to Action Pack. It can use Active Record. For generator we can use Rubigen, it s an extract of RailsGenerator.

For this we will use:

  • Radiant trunk r742
  • Merb (core and more) 0.9.0
  • Merb helpers 0.9.0
  • Merb ActiveRecord 0.9.0
  • ActiveRecord 2.0.2
  • Rubigen 1.2.0

The repository tree was build with:

  • Hoe (modified) generated skeleton
  • Merb application
  • Radiant source

1. Move Radiant base:

  • use plugins as gem:

* radius 0.5.1
* highline 1.4.0
* rubypants 0.2.0

  • use other plugins as ruby libraries:
* redcloth

* bluecloth

  • using active record: nothing to do
  • radius and other ruby libs: nothing to do
  • replace RailsGenerator with Rubigen (Radiant bin)
  • work on initializer
  • desactivate extension dependencies (first step we move only the base)
  • manage Controller and libraries using controllers
  • check routes management
  • work on views to replace Rails specific code

2. Replace extension system with gems:

  • first, activate gem with only code features
  • second, deal with extension providing assets
tags: ruby (22) merb (3) radiant (7)