Comments on: Trying out the CFWheels framework

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:16:38 +0000

Great write up – thanks Ryan.

By: Chris Peters

Chris Peters — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:15:36 +0000

Thanks for the honest account, Ryan!

One suggestion that I can offer is to rely more on the "mapping" part of "object relational mapping" to get your data references in plainer English. Then you may end up fighting less with Wheels defaults like error messages.

You can use the property() method on your model to define that "fname" should be mapped to "firstName". Then Wheels will treat the column like a real adult.

Try this out in init():

etc…

Good luck with the contest. I'm glad to hear that there's someone out there working on it!

P.S. If you either create a category or tag in WordPress for "ColdFusion on Wheels," "CFWheels," or whatever, I can add your Wheels-related posts to our Wheels Bloggers aggregator on cfwheels.org. It gives your posts a little extra exposure from others interested in the framework.

By: Raul Riera

Raul Riera — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:28:26 +0000

Phew 🙂

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:12:07 +0000

Raul: no, my columns were not named createdAt/updatedAt when I ran the scaffolding plugin. I don't think your plugin did anything wrong.

By: Raul Riera

Raul Riera — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:01:21 +0000

Were the columns named createdAt, updatedAt or deletedAt? if so, Scaffold SHOULDN'T place those form helpers in your views

By: Raul Riera

Raul Riera — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:57:04 +0000

That seems like a bug in my plugin.. I will look right into it 🙂

Glad to have you on board testing the framework