Why can't you do thumbnailing like that with CF? I've done almost exactly that, they only difference is that I store the thumbnail on the filesystem (though it's still served through CF), rather than the DB.
cheers, barneyb On 11/10/05, Marlon Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome to the service, please grab a cup of kool-aid from the table > there and have a seat. > > :) > > Actually, ever since messing around with ruby, I sometimes get > frustrated with CF because there's just not as elegant solutions > possible to some problems. Take for instance thumbnailing. In one of > my apps, I let the user upload whatever size image the user wants to. > On the fly, my program resizes it to constraints and stuffs it in a db > blob field. The image never has to go to the file system. In all, it > takes about 6~8 lines of code. The code to pull the image out of the > db and serve it to the browser is 2 lines and the code to cache the > image on the file system for the next request is 1 line. > > That said, the learning curve and ease of doing some things in CF > still keeps it near the king of RAD status > > > > On 11/10/05, Bryan Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not looking for a huge thread here....but I just watched a demo on Ruby on > > Rails and am left with these impressions/questions: > > > > 1) On the surface...DAMN! Sure could be better than CF for RAD > > > > 2) Demo was WAY too simple (basic blog). I'd bet that if you had > > conditional form validation (i.e. start date must be before end date), then > > Ruby starts to fall down (as it seems to derive form validation from data > > types and constraints). > > > > So....for those that have used or looked further into RoR....how does it > > stack up when you have to build something other than a basic web app like a > > blog/cart/webmail/etc.?? Does development take longer as you need to > > "tweak" things from the basic functionality? > > > > TIA > > > > Cheers > > > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > > phone: 250.480.0642 > > fax: 250.480.1264 > > cell: 250.920.8830 > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > web: www.electricedgesystems.com > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:223904 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
