Simeon Says

I have never written an app with Ruby. I am a cf’er all the way. That being said, if a client came to me and said we really want to build this website and we wont pay for the license of Adobe ColdFusion, I would probalby build my firt RoR app.

I really like Flex! and I am amazed by how simple it is to use ColdFusion as the back end for my applications. But I am also very happy to know that were I to have a reason to build a RoR, I would not be out of luck if I wanted to connect to it from Flex.

Today WebORB annouced another addition to their product line up, WebORB for Ruby on Rails.

From the WebORB blog:

Much anticipated release of WebORB for Ruby on Rails is here and it is beautiful! The product is free and open-source and does really wonderful things for integrating Flex and/or Flash Remoting applications with Rails. We implemented both AMF0 and AMF3 protocols as well as added support for service deployment via standard Flex configuration file (remoting-config.xml).

So apparently this solution will also be free and open source which I am always a fan of. So if you are a flex or Ruby Developers I encourage you to check out this software to help you connect your projects.

I have often talked among my friends that the only cartoon I really miss was the jetsons. I enjoyed it as a youth and have not seen it around much on the cartoon networks.

So you can imagine my excitement to find this press release over on apples site.

All 24 episodes of the orignal season are available now. Click here to see the The Jetsons Season 1.

We are all pretty familiar with the concept of keywords in programming. These are words we shouldnt use as variables because they are reserved for special use by the compiler.

Where I often forget about them is in frameworks. I was working on an admin for a site today where users can rsvp for events. Sounds easy enough right? Although I dont think event itself is a keyword in Reactor, it turns out that because I was using it in Model-Glue Unity I got myself in a pinch.

Everything was working just fine until I submitted the rsvp form in the admin. Then it errored that the event supplied to my rsvp.setEvent() method was not of the right type. Well I turned off development mode of reactor so it wouldn’t overwrite my file, and I change the setEvent() function to take type any. I then added a cfdump of the arguments scope and cfaborted.

What did I see in my dump output? “rsvp.commit” Thats right. I was using event as the the eventValue in my configuration. Meaning its the variable in my url that decides what actions should be done. Making it a keyword of sorts.

So to fix this I had a couple options. I figure I could change the eventValue for the url. However since “events” are a key peice of Model-Glue and can be used in Reactor, I decided I would be better to change my db. I didnt really want to change the name of my table in the database, so Reactor table aliases to the rescue. My Reactor config used to look like this(-ish ):