[Vit-discuss] Ruby-lang web server options.

[John W. Long]

Hugh Sasse wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, John W. Long wrote:
>>
>>> If you'd like to write a plugin for Radiant that turns adds these 
>> Oh, it's radiant, not apache.
> 
> OK, I've looked at the radiant site, downloaded the source.  It's
> based on Rails but I've not done enough with Rails plugins to know
> what do do about this.  Also, looking at the Radiant CMS site I 
> see tabs along the top for everything except documentation, so I 
> can't quickly browse to lookup the information I need to do this.
> Rails requires some kind of web server, so my assumption about apache
> seems to be correct:

You need to create a plugin in the vendor/plugins directory:

vendor/plugins/my_plugin_name
- lib # plugin files
- init.rb # loaded when rails is loaded

You can look at the source of the plugins we currently have installed to 
get an idea of how they are done:

http://rubyidentity.org/ruby-lang.org/browser/ruby-lang.org/trunk/www/vendor/plugins/

To do the header stuff you need to add a Rails before_filter (see the 
docs) which modifies the headers on the response object. For the Gzip 
stuff we may have to do something Apache related for that.

--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com
http://radiantcms.org