I finally did have a look at the flash movie presentation for Ruby on Rails, you know, the "build a blog in 15 minutes" presentation. I have to admit, there seemed to be a number of similarities between that presentation and the Power onTap presentation -- the guy recording it keeps repeating "look at all the things I'm not doing". Which I haven't said in my own presentation (that I recall), but I've thought it... maybe I should say it. :P For a lot of the same features tho, like fetching information for input elements from the database meta data on the fly (as opposed to from a code-gen app).
Rails seems to take that concept a little further -- input types are determined by the data type of the column (textarea for long-text fields) and the order of input elements in the form is determined by the order of columns in the database (IDE)... These are a little further than I'd _want_ to take the automation myself. It wouldn't be a big stretch (a few minutes work), but I don't think it would be very useful actually, since for example with an i18n app you still have to manually assign the localized labels for all your input elements in each language. I have to say, I could build the same blog in the same 15 minutes in ColdFusion ... though it's not a very good blog... I'm about 3 days into building a blog actually as a sample application for the onTap framework. It may or may not be the best "sample" because I'm actually adding some advanced features, but I expect all-told it will have only taken me about a week to build, and should cover most of the features provided by the existing free blogs for CF, and I think with some extras. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:212677 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
