CFSilent but alive
Some of you might think we aren't working anymore. But we are. There is always the excuse that you have a lot to do. And yes, we had and have many things to do. So, what's on currently?
New stuff in the latest releases - Part II
Since we can not stop we have added further things to Railo in the patch Railo 2.0.0.026:
Railo administrator constants
Sometimes it is quite useful to use constants in applications like several paths etc. In Railo you can define these constants in the Railo XML. In one of the future releases these constants will be editable in the Railo administrators. So you can define things like follows:
<railo-configuration ...>
<constants>
<constant name="log-file-dir" value="/storage/logfiles/myWeb" />
</constants>
</railo-configuration>
Then in the mappings and other settings you could use these predefined constants in order to centralize your definitions.
<application application-log="{log-file-dir}/application.log" application-log-level="error" exception-log="{log-file-dir}/exception.log" exception-log-level="error" />
You can even use these constants in your code by applying the function ExpandPath():
<cfset sMyPath = ExpandPath("{log-file-dir}/myfile.log")>
In this case sMyPath contains the value "/storage/logfiles/myWeb/myfile.log". It can therefore be quite useful since you do not have to change a line of code (not even configuration files) in you application. Just use the constants defined in the administrator.
To be continued...
New stuff in the latest releases
Since fixing bugs is not the only thing that is part of our duty when maintaining the Railo source, some new features found their way into the latest patches.
Railo WEB-INF and roots
Many people asked us how to secure the WEB-INF folder and/or how to move generated files from the WEB-INF folder to a different position.
Digital world on a chip – fotoworld
The german digital imaging portal Chip Fotoworld has been redesigned and lifted from Coldfusion MX 7.0 to Railo 2.0 Professional.
Testing us
Before Railo 2.0.0.007 has been released, we tested several applications and frameworks for functionality.
Organic Energizer
A new website has been launched with Railo Enterprise. http://organicfoodbar.com/.
Railo 2.0 released
On friday August, 17th the new version of Railo has been released.
Next larger one: StreetTeam.de
The Warner Music Group Germany launched a music site based on Railo and populated with the CMS makeit-online.
Railo Readonly - Start Railo from a CD
Sometimes it makes sense when you want to start Railo by inserting a CD and execute just a certain start script.
