I’m a Richardson, RU?

I blogged a few days ago about CFWheels, a project seeking to breathe a Ruby on Rails type life through the nostrils of ColdFusion. So in the midst of fixing bunches of bugs at work and doing my best to prototype (and start on the spec) for a couple enterprise apps I’m doing at work (thanks so much Nova Mind) I just had to stop and check up on CFWheels. Honestly, my head was just in shell shock and I needed to do something else before I combusted.

To make a long story short, if you haven’t looked at the tutorials, it’s really worth it The first one gives an intro to the framework and the second one (just came out like yesterday or something) gives a big explaination on what "routes" are (yea, I ended a sentence with a preposition). Routes are cool in that they allow you to use URL to contains default controllers and actions which can automatically generate variables to be used by your applications. (OK, I’m not giving them enough justice, but well.)

So I’ve installed the app and have run through the sample tutorial (you know, "say/hello" & "say/goodbye"). Let me tell you, if this project pans out to be what it’s looking like I’m going to be one happy camper indeed when it comes to building apps quickly. They’ve even included a little "updater" as part of the framework for updating code as needed.

Where are they at now? Well, they’re currently working on the integration of the Model system into CFWheels. This is obviously the core piece of life. They’re looking at possibly integrating Arf!, Active Record Factory, (my posts) into the framework — which by my standards would be phenomenal! Once this core piece is added I believe we’re going to see the birth of many applications built in CFWheels, at least for demo purposes if not for "real".

OH, one last thing, you can of course use the CFWheels site for info, but I’ve found out that most of the actual up to date/blog-in-your-face info comes from Rob Cameron’s Cube6 Blog.