Radiant CMS for Rails Developers

            <%= yield :layout %>
        



            <%= render :partial => “/layouts/#{@sidebar}” %>
        

        

We’re setting the body class dynamically to highlight page navigation. The yield and render partial statements should look familiar to anyone with a working knowledge of Rails.

Now lets look at the Radiant version of the above, which uses the Radiant tagging system:

Radiant provides a number of different ways to generate content, the predominant methods being creating layouts, snippets and pages. In Radiant, our partials become shared snippets, our yield statement is replaced by a content tag, and our sidebar is replaced by a page content part (created in the pages tab) that is inherited by all child pages and can likewise be overridden by child pages with different sidebar content. Lastly, we’re using a Radiant tag that infers the title of the current page being navigated to in order to drive the “where am I” functionality of our header navigation.

A relatively simplistic example, but hopefully somewhat illuminating. In the next post, I’ll discuss creating pages and some more dynamic content. In the meantime, we encourage anyone looking for a nice clean ruby CMS to give Radiant a try. Cheers!

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