Railo Blog

• Railo on Github

  Railo team has made a final decision to start doing nightly builds / BER on Github ( http://github.com/getrailo/railo ). We will continue to use JBoss SVN ( http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/railo/ ) for pushing stable builds. We're now working on creating a build script to make it easier to build Railo.

  (August 19, 2010)

• Railo Tip: Trimming with cfsavecontent

  Random tip of the week with <cfsavecontent>:

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  (August 19, 2010)

• Railo 3.1.2.019 and open tasks

  As part of the latest Railo update, the format of the task object has changed slightly so, if you have any open tasks in your Administrator (under Services > Tasks), it's probably safer to delete those tasks first, before you update. This applies only to tasks, not scheduled tasks. If you update while such tasks exist, you may encounter a null pointer exception when viewing Services > Tasks in the Administrator. To fix that, simply remove the *.tsk files from the WEB-INF/railo/client-tasks folder tree and restart Railo.

  (August 18, 2010)

• Railo Download Statistics

  In this blog post I wanted to share with the community some of the download statistics that we have had from http://www.getrailo.org.
  

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  (August 5, 2010)

• Railo at CFUnited 2010

  Railo is a Silver sponsor of the last ever CFUnited which is kicking off officially tomorrow (July 28th). Gert Franz, Mark Drew, Sean Corfield and the elusive Peter Bell can be found at the Railo booth this year. So, please drop by with any questions you have or just say hello to the team! In addition to the booth, Gert Franz will be presenting on Railo 4.0 - What's next? and Sean Corfield has two presentation available this year, one on ColdFusion and The Open Source Landscape and FW/1 - The Invisible Framework. (Fork FW/1 on Github today!)

  If you're looking for fast paced CFUnited news / topics and random thoughts, might want to tune into Twitter.

  (July 27, 2010)

• Railo Tip: Implicit conversions

  Following up with yesterday's post, there's one more gem in that old Railo documentation. Again, this has been around since Railo 2.0. We're going to make a new, yet similar example. [More]

  (July 16, 2010)

• Railo Tip: Magic Functions - Getters / Setters

  I was digging around in the old Railo 2.0 documentation and I came across this little gem about magic functions (getters/setters). I thought I'd take a minute to update the documentation a little bit since things have changed as we can no longer rely on this scope since it is publicly accessible.

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  (July 16, 2010)

• Railo Tips & Tricks

  The team has been attempting to dust off ye ol' wiki. Mark Drew recently added a Tips & Tricks section on the wiki.

  (July 15, 2010)

• 2010 CFUNITED - Railo Promo Code Available

  Came across some sad news on twitter, but 2010 is apparently the last CFUnited conference. If you haven't already registered, please do it now to take advantage of the early bird special. Don't forget to use "RAICUST" as your promo code for an additional discount.

  (June 30, 2010)

• Barcode Generation with Railo

  In a previous blog post, I mentioned that createObject() has a 3rd / 4th argument negates the need to use Javaloader. Some questions have come up on the Railo mailing list and I thought I'd attach 2 working examples (barcode_samples.zip). One is using the Barbeque library found on Sourceforge, the other is using Google's zxing library. Remember, with a little creativity and expanding these samples, this type of code can be baked into Railo natively (e.g.: <cfbarcode>) today by placing the code in special directories (Functions / Tags).

  Special thanks to Leigh's (cfsearching) excellent blog for some example legwork in barcode generation.

  (June 23, 2010)

• Railo on the move: Australia now has a Volunteer Community Manager

  I'd like to welcome AJ Mercer for stepping up and taking the role of the Australian/APAC Community Manager. I've updated the Team Bio with his information and you can read about his acceptance on his blog.

  Are you next? :)

  (June 10, 2010)

• Paid Railo Extension Amazon S3 now free; moves to the core.

  Railo Team has a mantra that if functionality moves to the "core" language of CFML, then what was once a paid plugin / extension would then become free. With that, this is the announcement that the Railo Amazon S3 plugin is currently available as a free extension now and it will be part of the core in one of the next patch bleeding edge releases.

  Update: Gert just linked on twitter an old tutorial on how to use the Amazon S3 plugin in Railo.

  (May 27, 2010)

• Bleeding Edge - Railo 3.1.2.013 is available

  If you're into downloading and testing bleeding edge, Micha let me know that .013 dropped. If you're superstitious, don't worry... I was reassured that .014 will be available by the time SOTR is here. In this build, there are a lot of new functions:

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  (May 18, 2010)

• Railo Roadmap - Version 3.2 and beyond

  The Railo Team has published a roadmap outlining enhancements in version 3.2 and further. As always, if there's something you'd like to see you should continue to use Railo.uservoice.com and post bugs in JIRA. If there are any questions, please post a comment or discuss issues in the Railo mailing list.

  (May 4, 2010)

• Change to railo.uservoice.com

  We use Uservoice.com to track feature requests. Recently, we've been getting a lot of unwanted movie spam from uservoice, so we're turning off the anonymous submission of ideas. If there's an idea that you want to pass around and don't want your name associated with it, then I suggest either sending me an email (todd @ getrailo dot org) and I'll submit it on your behalf anonymously or finding one of the many free email service out there and creating an anonymous account.

  Personally, I'd rather see you involved and taking credit for ideas. :)

  (April 23, 2010)