Interesting article. There are a lot of similarities between Ruby on Rails and my application cfcPowerTools. Ruby on Rails will "automatically map tables to classes, rows to objects (instances of the model classes), and columns to object attributes". (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/13/what_is_rails.html?page=3 _ cfcPowerTools does the same thing. Ruby has the ability to work with relational data. So does cfcPowerTools, but cfcPowerTools does not do it automatically yet.
By the way, I've finished up cfcPowerTools version 3 and it's ready for testing. cfcPowerTools 3 has the following improvements: - CFCTypes. cfcPowerTools comes with 3 CFC Types - DAO (creates MachII CFC and DAO), Model/Controller, and Simple. You can create your own CFC Types. A CFC Type describes a CFC and its database access CFC and form if applicable. - Schema. cfcPowerTools now generates all CFCs from a XML document which is validated against a schema. You can use cfcPowerTools' schema or create your own. - Managed Code. cfcPowerTools now has managed code. You can tag any section or sections of your CFC as managed code and assign a CFC and Method to that section. The CFC and Method assigned to the section are responsible for the code generated for that section. All code outside of managed code section is left alone by cfcPowerTools - Open Source. cfcPowerTools version 3 will be open to an extent. The only code not open is how cfcPowerTools manages Managed Code and generating CFCs from the CFC Types loaded in cfcPowerTools's library. I do not have version 3 available from my site (www.cfcpowertools.com) yet. I hope to have version 3 available in a couple of weeks. Just depends on how testing goes. Thanks Tom Schreck -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Rawlinson Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Ruby on Rails for CF Sorry to dredge this topic back up but a link posted at /. today may help some people get a better feel for what Ruby on Rails is: its titled: what is ruby on rails :O) http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/13/what_is_rails.html ---------------------------------------------------------- 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] ---------------------------------------------------------- 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]
