Posts About ColdFusion on Wheels

This past week, Kenneth Barrett asked a question on Twitter about how to DRY up his form code in ColdFusion on Wheels. He didn’t want to have a copy of the same form across 2 view files. This is because he is a smart guy, even as a beginner!

I linked Kenneth to a post that I wrote a year ago about combining 2 forms into a single view file. That approach works well for certain scenarios, but I’ve since changed my mind on my general preference for DRYing up forms.

Read on to see what exactly I’ve changed my mind on.

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On my Labs site, I’ve written another page exploring a view helper coming up in ColdFusion on Wheels version 1.1 called flashMessages(). Read on about it if you want more details, but here’s the gist.

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A cool new feature coming up in ColdFusion on Wheels 1.1 is automatic validations. I wrote a page last night to play around with the new feature a little and figure out how it all works.

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I went to deploy my new ColdFISH on Wheels plugin on my Linux server and got a curious error. Especially if you’re using Linux, you’ll want to upgrade to ColdFISH on Wheels 0.3 ASAP.

What happened? Read on to find out.

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As I hit the books and learned about Ruby on Rails a couple years ago, there was one thing that I admired about how Ruby handles public and private sections of classes.

How can I take a lesson from Ruby and apply it to my CFML coding? I’m glad that you asked! Read on for more details.

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This is fairly simple, but I figured that I would share my approach for 404 error pages in ColdFusion on Wheels and see if anyone has a different/better way of doing it. This example demonstrates code used on cfwheels.org.

Read on to learn more.

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“Does exactly what it says on the tin.”

I love it. All of our method and function names should do exactly the same.

Read on for more context and why Andy Bellenie is a genius.

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This morning, I set up a GitHub account so that I could have some public repositories for my ColdFusion on Wheels plugins. Feel free to follow me and watch my repositories as I post them up. (Gotta learn how to do that first though!)

Read on for a summary of how I installed my local copy of Git on Snow Leopard.

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For the ColdFusion on Wheels API documentation, we chose to do something a little unconventional (but pretty cool). Using some extra CFC attributes and CFML‘s GetMetaData() function, we wrote a pretty cool documentation parser for ColdFusion on Wheels.

Read on for an example of what we did.

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I’m looking forward to playing around with ColdFusion 9 when I get some more time here in a month or so. One of the areas that interests me in particular is the ability to write full CFCs in CFScript syntax.

Read on for what I feel is the perfect blend of CFML features used in the different layers of the ColdFusion on Wheels framework:

• Controllers in script syntax
• Models in script syntax
• Views in tag syntax

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