Railo Blog

Railo on Github

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:22:00 +0200

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.

Railo Tip: Trimming with cfsavecontent

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:18:00 +0200

Random tip of the week with <cfsavecontent>:

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Railo 3.1.2.019 and open tasks

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:35:00 +0200

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.

Railo Download Statistics

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:05:00 +0200

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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Railo at CFUnited 2010

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:49:00 +0200

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.

Railo Tip: Implicit conversions

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:18:00 +0200

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]

Railo Tip: Magic Functions - Getters / Setters

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:49:00 +0200

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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Railo Tips & Tricks

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:15:00 +0200

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

2010 CFUNITED - Railo Promo Code Available

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:23:00 +0200

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.

Barcode Generation with Railo

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:15:00 +0200

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.

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

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:20:00 +0200

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? :)

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

Thu, 27 May 2010 15:21:00 +0200

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.

Bleeding Edge - Railo 3.1.2.013 is available

Tue, 18 May 2010 12:05:00 +0200

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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Railo Roadmap - Version 3.2 and beyond

Tue, 04 May 2010 14:18:00 +0200

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.

Change to railo.uservoice.com

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:13:00 +0200

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. :)