CF on Rails would be very cool. I really like the active record stuff. I didn't think you could make interfacing with the database much easier than CF does - but sure enough Rails beats CF in that regard (though, it does have some limitations). ActiveRecord is some smart bit of work though.
Bill On 9/13/05, Mark Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm actually sitting here contemplating the above issue. > > Looking at the frameworks that currently abound (mach-ii, Tartan, > Model-glue etc) they all have one thing in common - they all have to > be installed by dropping the folder at the root level of the > application. > > I'm starting to lean very much so in that direction. It has it's > drawbacks (as outlined in the above post), however it seems to be the > *most* flexible of options, and in MOST cases you will always have > access to the root of your domain or can create a mapping to that > directory. > > That being said - I can already see places where the above method is > going to cause me huge grief on the corp intranet I work on sometimes. > > At the end of the day - I've been bitching about this issue for long > enough, it really sucks, and I don't understand how MM have got away > with it for so long. But all we can do is work around it. > > Regards, > > Mark > > On 9/14/05, John Farrar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well... I don't do everything the same way. Generally my only extends are > > from packages, and haven't had the issue you guys mention. Perhaps my > > childlike innocence is preventing that because I approach things different. > > Sorry, that surely isn't going to help you resolve your style of CFC usage. > > I will try to follow the thread and see if a creative concept comes to mind. > > (I am still a supporter of adding just a little more "UMF" to the next > > version of CF CFCs.) Nando is quite creative... and I am so flooded with > > overflow right now... and meeting my deadline for SOS v3 that I am checking > > this whole thread out to see if there is ways to do the very thing. (In fact > > another CFer has me motivated to build a methodology inside SOS that will > > allow Rails features for application building. I am amazed with the cool > > possibilities of implementing at least some of the concepts as they fit best > > to our language. Working on Active Record concepts right now. I like the > > concept of data intuition. Not sure if that should be added in the > > methodology level or the site level yet... lots of angles to consider.) > > > > John > > > > P.S. > > I can remember when no one seemed to be using CFCs, and now it seems people > > use them exclusively to the neglect of tags. (NOTE: not suggesting to solve > > the issue with tags.) > > -- > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > W: www.compoundtheory.com > ICQ: 3094740 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the > email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting > (www.cfxhosting.com). > > CFCDev is supported by New Atlanta, makers of BlueDragon > http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at > www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.rawlinson.us If you want Gmail - just ask. ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). CFCDev is supported by New Atlanta, makers of BlueDragon http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
