CFgears - Railo

Now running on Railo 3.1!

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:06:00 -0500

Tonight I upgraded my server from the Railo 3.0 Community version to Railo 3.1. A couple of weeks ago I upgraded all of my development machines and found that it was an amazingly simple process. Tonight's upgrade was flawless, and my sites were down for literally less than 30 seconds. All I had to do was stop my Railo server, make a backup copy of the "lib" directory, copy/paste the Jar files into the original "lib" directory, and restart Railo. (The Jar files can be found here, under "Railo Custom".)

I still can not get over just how easy this process was! Even after doing this upgrade on multiple dev machines, in the back of my mind I was still halfway expecting to run into some problem when I did it in production. I mean, come on...how many times does an upgrade like this go off without any problems when you do it in production, right?

I tip my hat to the staff behind Railo. They are an amazing group of people who have created an equally amazing product.

Upgrade from Railo community 3.0 to Railo 3.1

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:00:00 -0500

This week I decided to upgrade my Railo setup from the older Community version to the latest and greatest Open Source version (3.1.1.000 at the time of this writing). And, I have to admit, I was amazed at how simple it was!

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Documentation for Railo's CFAdmin tag

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:10:00 -0500

Gert announced today on the Railo Google Group that the documentation for Railo's cfadmin tag has been published.

The cfadmin tag can be used to interact with the Railo Administrators (both the local web configuration and the global server). More information can be found at http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/documentation/cfadmin-doc

Use Railo's built in cfadmin tag to manipulate datasources

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:17:00 -0500

This is so cool! I had no idea that Railo had a tag for interacting with the Railo Administrator. I guess this is Railo's version of the CF Admin API?

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Railo has built in support for Amazon S3

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:18:00 -0500

One of the nice things about Railo is its Virtual File Systems, or "Resources" as they're sometimes called. While Railo offers serveral Resources, one of my favorite ones is the built in Resource for Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service). It basically allows you to connect to anything in your Amazon S3 account using any file related CF tag or function, without any extra CF code or CFC calls.

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Update Railo server with just one click.

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:34:00 -0500

One of the coolest things about Railo is that it has a built in system for handling bug fixes and patches, and it's all pretty much automated. No searching for and downloading hotfixes, no renaming and copying .jar files, there's just a simple button inside the administrator.

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Railo doesn't recognize cfquery's result ID variable.

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:58:00 -0500

This may not come as a big surprise to some people, but Railo doesn't seem to recognize the new query result attribute added to CF 8 that gets the ID of an inserted record.

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Differences in Application name between CF 8 and Railo

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:16:00 -0500

This was an interesting little "gotcha" I stumbled on tonight. It seems that using a dash in the application name will throw an error in CF, but works fine in Railo.

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Inconsistency between Railo and CF 8...Railo Wins.

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:58:00 -0500

I found an interesting inconsistency today between Railo and CF 8, and I have no idea what the real problem is or how to fix it.

I used the Illudium PU-36 Code Generator to create the CF components for a project that I'm working on. The problem I'm having is, whenever I make a call to one of my service components I get a "coldfusion.sql.QueryTable cannot be cast to java.util.Map" error on CF 8, but the same code works fine on Railo.

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The Power of Railo Webs

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:13:00 -0500

Railo Webs are awesome! For those that don't know what a Railo "Web" is, it's basically a way to give each (Railo) CF site on your server its own private settings. Each Railo Web is completely independent from other Railo Webs. So if you've got 10 websites, and every one of them wants a datasourse named "MyDSN" that points to a different database, that's not a problem. If every one of them wants a mapping named "MyMapping" pointing to a different file location, consider it done.

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Bug with Railo and OnMissingTemplate in Application.cfc

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:02:00 -0500

Recently I was finishing up a CFML project that's going to be run on top of Railo. Since this particular project was a redesign of an existing site, maintaining search engine rankings was a big concern. Many of the files on the new site had been relocated or renamed, so I was planning on using the onMissingTemplate method in Application.cfc to redirect users (and search engines) to the new files based on what had been requested. Imagine my surprise when I found that Railo doesn't seem to recognize onMissingTemplate! [More]

Runnin' on Railo!

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:22:00 -0500

My new blog went live today, and it's running on Railo. I've just started using Railo on a few projects lately, and I must say I'm very impressed with it. I plan on blogging about my experiences with it, so stay tuned!