Railo

This post was inspired by Raymond Camden recent blog post about Yahoo Query Language (YQL). Back in June 2009, Michael Offner-Streit blogged about how to create CFC Custom Tags. So, I thought I'd do a little experimenting with this idea and convert Ray Camden's custom tag (cfm) over to a custom tag (cfc) that Railo enables you to use. [More]

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 ... [More] faster Better understand your code Accelerate the learning of CFML and existing CFML applications [More] [Less]

If you're attempting to update your Railo server and you're behind a firewall / proxy with restricted outbound access, you can manually download the patch and install yourself.The patches can always be found ... [More] at:http://www.getrailo.org/railo/remote/download/{full patch number}/{full patch number}.rcSo, for example, 3.1.1 is found at:http://www.getrailo.org/railo/remote/download/3.1.1.000/3.1.1.000.rcNow, once you have the .rc file downloaded, what do you do with it?Depending on how your Railo is setup, you're looking the /railo-server/patches folder. In resin, it can be found {resin install}/lib/railo-server/patches -- So, if you're on a different JEE engine other than Resin, just look around for your /railo-server/patches folder and drop it in place. Once in place, restart the Railo instance in the server context ( http://{hostname}/railo-context/admin/server.cfm ). This will drop your current session and you'll have to re-log in. When you do, you should be patched! [Less]

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]

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 ... [More] 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] [Less]

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 ... [More] 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] [Less]

I posted Gert Franz's 2009 CFUnited Railo Presentation to Slidesix.com. I would embed it here, but this version of BlogCFC doesn't like the object tag. :) It's important to note that Gert posted the road map (around slide 42) for 3.2 and beyond in ... [More] the presentation. If you prefer the PDF instead, you can find that here.Update: Link fixed and let's test the embed: [Less]

A big thank you to everyone that stopped by the Railo booth and the presentation! It was great meeting everyone. Everyone at Railo Technologies was pleased at how much interest there was in Railo at CFUnited and we look forward to CFUnited 2010!If ... [More] there are any additional questions regarding Railo, by all means, either drop by our very active mailing list or contact us via blog or email! [Less]

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 featuresWe're in full swing at CFUnited, so ... [More] 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. ;) [Less]

Gert Franz and Sean Corfield were interviewed by Dave Ferguson and Michael Sean Becker in Show #18 of CFHour. Thanks for having us guys!