Radiant to Merb

stephane — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:33:00 +0100

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

Rubynaut: Radiant to Merb

Radiant to Merb

Action plan:

1. Move Radiant base:

2. Replace extension system with gems: