wow. all that, and i dont have a clue what most of it means :) thats just what i love about cf.
i dont have to know, it just does stuff. ok, thanks dog. tw On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, since you asked :) > > 1. It has a console. As I'm working with my models, I can call > methods directly on my models as I bulid them. > 2. I'm a fan of the more terse syntax (bastard child of Perl). I > know other people aren't and that's fine. I just get tired of all the > typing of cf. > 3. The ORM's for ruby so far have been miles ahead of the ORM's > available on CF and my *personal* feeling is that the query container > has no place in an object based program. > 4. It's a multi-purpose language with which I have done multi-purpose > things with. > 5. It's got code blocks! Ever want to run a method on whatevers found > in a regex search...code blocks let you. (This actually just happened > to me recently) > 6. It's got Rails. Lot's of people don't like. I happen to love it. > 7. It's got Merb. When Rails is to much, merb is another great > framework > 8. It's got Hpricot....possibly the easiest xml/html parser/modifier/ > everything tool (used it to make a tool that goes through my itunes > library xml and checks for missing songs) > 9. It's extremely handy. My wife has a friend who always messes up > forwarded emails. The whole forward email is uuencoded. She forwards > it to me and I have a script that strips it out and reconverts it back > to a binary. It's 4 lines of code. > 10. It's open source and therefore more code/presentations/plugins/ > screencasts seem to be released for it. > 11. It's so popular that Microsoft is going to demo the version > (IronRuby) on Friday that runs on top of the .net clr. > 12. It's got a proper "method missing" method! From what I can tell, > CF8 method missing only fires when called from outside the class. > 13. It's dynamic....very dynamic. Want to redefine what > String.capitalize does...you can...reopening the class is as easy as > including "class String; def capitalize; you code here;end ;end" > > There's more, but I've got to get back to work.....and these reasons > don't even include all the rails goodness. > > > > On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Tony wrote: > >> oh i know. >> im just wondering. >> >> im small minded... >> >> tw >> >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:49 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hey Tony! This wasn't meant as a Ruby vs CF.....The videos are >>> language agnostic! >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jun 3, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Tony wrote: >>> >>>> so, in my feeble mind, i cannot CANNOT for the life >>>> of me figure out why i would use ruby, or anything like >>>> that over CF. >>>> >>>> can anyone please tell me why i would care about ruby? >>>> or anything else? over cf? >>>> >>>> and price is not, NOT a viable reason. >>>> >>>> i just dont get it. >>>> >>>> tw >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:37 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> The railsEnvy guy's have put some more videos out. They're MVC >>>>> Public >>>>> Service Announcements. Not really Ruby related and they're goofy >>>>> funny. Afterall, when isn't a Burt Reynolds look-a-like not funny? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/6/3/adam-keys-and-railsenvy-mvc-video >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> "So I mixed up the batter and she licked the beater!" >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:261128 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
