Railo Blog - Railo 3.1

Release notes Railo 3.1.2

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0200

We are very proud to present the next minor release of Railo labeled 3.1.2 which you can easily install by following the usual update procedure as described here.

Updating Railo.

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[Video] Updating Railo

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:38:00 +0200

Probably one of my favorite features about Railo is the ability to update Railo immediately from the server context. Forget about applying patch after patch. Just update the server. Paul Kukiel recently tweeted a link that included a Jing Flash Video to demonstrate it. Thanks to Paul for letting me grab/host a copy here on the Railo blog.

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Railo 3.1.2 Preview

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:11:00 +0200

Hot on the heels of 3.1.1.017, Build 3.1.2.000 is available on the public preview update site ( http://preview.getrailo.org/ ). You can find details on how to update your Railo build here.

As always, you should take caution when updating your Railo server. We're looking for feedback on this build, so if you find any issues - please let us know as it's important to note that 3.1.2 will eventually become the public build.

Railo 3.1.1.017 Preview

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:30:00 +0200

We just wanted to inform you about the next minor release candidate for Railo 3.1.2 (Railo 3.1.1.017) that we have placed on preview.getrailo.org. It contains several new things and several patches that have been accumulated since the last version 3.1.1.000 that will hereby be replaced. Please note that if you want to test this release, you need to change the update provider to http://preview.getrailo.org

http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/download/upgrading-railo/?keywords=update

Let's have a closer look at what has changed... [More]

Projects at GetRailo.org

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:26:00 +0200

http://projects.getrailo.org/ is now available for those Open Source projects that extend / enhance Railo. Big thank you to Andrea Campolonghi for the time he spent setting this up. If you have a open source project enhancing or extending Railo and would like to have a project hosting along with access to a public SVN and Trac (wiki), please contact us so that we can get you going!

The Ajax Railo project has been relocated to http://projects.getrailo.org/projects/railoajax/.

Community Update - Projects, Trac and a Surprise

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:52:00 +0200

This past week, the community recently got a hint of news from Michael Offner-Streit on the mailing list. He mentioned on one of the threads that http://projects.getrailo.org/ will be launching soon. I finally have more information to share about this. Consider this a dumping ground of ideas. One of the issues that recently came up was people wanting to modify / fix tags like cfdump, cfvideoplayer and such. The tags will be posted there so that the community can have easy access to it and further contribute to the development and improvements of the tags. So, if you have a better video player built in flash and you want to share it, it will be posted to http://projects.getrailo.org/. The Projects website is also going to host a copy of Railo Admin and the Railo Admin API as well.

Also, forthcoming is Trac. I was just about to send in another request for a wiki to be opened up when Gert sidetracked me with news and it just so happened that this was one of them. This means that the documentation, installation guide and other relevant information can be finally posted somewhere. You will be able to register / sign up for an account to make modifications and contribute new documentation. Railo Technologies will continue to use the existing documentation codex/wiki scaffolding; Railo Technologies will work on figuring out a way to pull documentation from the new Trac to other locations.

I consider this progress as there is still a noticeable grumbling about lack of documentation and such.

Last, but certainly not least -- Two words: Event Gateways. The development of Event Gateways is a sponsored project. I'm told that within the next month or so, we should be expecting the release of a Railo Event Gateways and more importantly, we will be able to create these event gateways via CFC and/or Java. For example, the directory watcher could be written in entirely CFML if you're not familiar enough with Java -- Currently, majority of the event gateways in other engines are java-based and the CFCs are nothing more than listeners. The Railo team wants to get a discussion going about this idea and get some feedback. If you have any suggestions as to what you'd like to see, now is the time to put your request in or ask questions. Free/Sample Event Gateway code will also be posted to http://projects.getrailo.org/.

What's in a WEB-INF directory?

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:35:00 +0200

A question came up on the mailing list, Doug Boude was asking for what all was actually in the WEB-INF/Railo folder and what is it used for? Gert took the time to write up some documentation and post it online. The documentation includes an explanation of web context, what's in the WEB-INF folder, additional files as well as some tips and tricks.

New CFML Debugger Available for Railo 3.1

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:11:00 +0200

New in Railo 3.1 is an interface to interact with the CFML debugger, FusionDebug. Now Railo developers have the opportunity to benefit from using an interactive step debugger.

Increase your productively
Improve code quality
Debug your CFML code faster
Better understand your code
Accelerate the learning of CFML and existing CFML applications

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Railo - AJAX Tags

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:17:00 +0200

I have just uploaded Andrea Campolonghi's current RC version of the ajax built in tags. Here's what you need to do in order to install and test the tags. [More]

Ubuntu 9.04, Tomcat 6 and Railo

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:12:00 +0200

Update: As Jamie Krug pointed out in a comment, I meant 9.04... See my response to him in the comments below!

Today I was asked to try installing Railo on Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu because it doesn't work out of the box. I normally use CentOS for Linux testing so I went ahead and downloaded the Ubuntu 9.04 Server 64-bit ISO and fired up VMWare Fusion to install it on a new VM. It's a pretty slick (if DOS-like) installer and you can install LAMP and Tomcat 6 directly as part of the initial setup which I did. Soon I had a running Ubuntu server with MySQL, PHP and Tomcat 6 all ticking along. [More]

Always something new to find in Railo

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:00:00 +0200

Even for myself this was absolutely stunning. I decided to write a series of tips for Railo and by doing this I stumbled across a problem Andrea Campolonghi had, who writes the Railo AJAX tag extensions we will include very soon. The problem was or is that he needed to read the content of a zip file that is inside another zip archive. Now how to do that without unzipping it into a local folder. [More]

Railo 3.1 release

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:13:00 +0200

We're proud to announce that Railo 3.1 final is available. If you're running Railo 3.1 beta, you can upgrade via the server context with a push of a button!

Check out the What's new, download it, or suggest features

We're in full swing at CFUnited, so if you're here, please stop by the Railo booth and introduce yourself!

p.s. You'll have to excuse any typos as typing on a german keyboard is funky. ;)

Upgrading the JRE used in Railo

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:02:00 +0200

When you install Railo, the default JRE that comes with it is 1.6.0_01. So you might want to upgrade it some when. [More]

Using the Railo cluster cache

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:25:00 +0200

This is something we wanted to do for more than a year now. We wanted to implement a cache that is reachable from all the servers in a cluster. So here we go... [More]

Railo 3.1: Building your own Built-In-Function

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:19:00 +0200

Ever wish you could just install a frequently used UDF to the server since you use it so much? Take any of the numerous UDFs found at CFLib.org for example. How about... QueryRowToStruct()? That's a pretty useful function. Wonder why they didn't build this in? With Railo 3.1 RC, you can build this in yourself. With this blog post, I'm going to outline two different installation concepts, server wide and local context.

First, server wide:

Click on the "Download" link on QueryRowToStruct and you'll be prompted to download QueryRowToStruct.cfm
For server wide installation, you'll want to put this in the following directory:
```
{railo installation directory}/lib/railo-server/context/library/function/
```
Restart the server (I had to, I'm going to verify if this step is really necessary or if it can be fixed :) )

Once installed, I shouldn't have to cfinclude or copy/paste that function anywhere. I can create a test.cfm in my localhost and run the example code on QueryRowToStruct description page.

Now, you may be in a particular situation where you can't have this server-wide because you share the server with other people or because there's a conflict. You could just install it to your local context. Each virtual host you make should have its own WEB-INF directory, so you have a global admin and a local admin.

You would repeat all of the steps above, except for #2, you'll want to install this here instead:

{your website root directory}/WEB-INF/railo/library/function/

Remember, you don't have to use anything specific from CFLib.org. You can write your own user defined function or install the one that you frequently use. I bet this makes you wonder if Railo 3.1 could give you the ability to create your own Built-In-Tag? ;) You can and there's been some changes, so I plan on investigating and outlining in a new blog post. If you want to see if you can figure it out for yourself, you can use Andrea Campolonghi's <cfajaxproxy> as a great example. This example includes installation directions and will only work on Railo 3.1.020 build or higher.

Update: The resin webserver doesn't need to be restarted, but the Railo servlet engine does. You can do this one of two ways, log into the admin portal and click Restart or via code: <cfadmin action="restart" type="server" password="serverPassword">