-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Paul Ashenfelter Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Ruby on Rails for CF
On 9/25/05, John Farrar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, that sounds like an interesting implementation. One of the Rails rants > is to not put config files as such into XML. That's true, but misses have the point -- the config files that Rails uses are written using YAML instead of XML. For most configuration purposes, they are pretty equivalent except YAML requires a lot less typing :) JOHN: So it's less automated scripting created by the generator? Do I understand that? Somehow the less typing, and the lower portability seem to be the questions that would generate in my mind. The cool about RoR is it does so much. Duplicating RoR tit for tat would be contrary to the development principles of the creators of RoR. I would like to see the good benefits built one at a time and the more we get built and the more portable it is the more everyone benefits. The big brain freeze in the CF community seems to be build it all or nothing. That is crazy! I would still like to see some work go in that direction. Until there is a community effort my personal journey is already under way. Perhaps things like YAML are better than doing XML in CF. Yet, CF is a marketed product and definitely not open source. That in some ways is one of the down sides of CF from an honest take. If we all forked out the bucks for enterprise then we could build some universal Java tool that achieved YAML like functionality that gave us less typing. I am working on some simple "metaBeans" that use an XML configuration to get some of those things accomplished for CF development. There are 101 ways to do things that range from wrong way to best way for this situation. My project won't be the ultimate only way to do things. Yet, it sure beats waiting for a group of guys to jump in and build CFoR in complete form or do nothing. Therefore, this is just an open offer for anyone who is interested to join in. I am not going to beat the drum for help, that just wears out the drummer and wastes time on promotion that can go into building a project! In fact my beans are under way, and showing off the basic concept as part of our MUG meeting tonight. Thanks for the insight, it's appreciated. Sometimes I may take a couple of rounds to see things that are obvious... so please come around again if you see I missed something from your perspective. Sincerely, John Farrar SOSensible ---------------------------------------------------------- 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]
