Scope cascading, also known as scope precedence makes it easier for inexperienced developers to code, but slows down server performance. In Railo, scope cascading can be turned off.
Improve performance by turning off Scope Cascading
May 14, 2012 · By Christian Ready · 9 Comments
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Configure contexts individually
May 07, 2012 · By Christian Ready · No Comments
Railo Server creates a new web context for every website running on the same Railo instance. And since you have an individual web administrator available for each website, you can define different settings for each website which for instance allows you to configure two websites that they run in two time zones.
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Difference between the web and the server admin
April 30, 2012 · By Christian Ready · 3 Comments
This is a feature in Railo that confuses new Railo users very often. Railo comes with two types of administrators. In fact there are two type of administrators for every website you host on a system. In Railo all the settings you make in the Railo Web Administrator affect only the website you are calling it from.
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Chaining function calls and statements
April 23, 2012 · By Christian Ready · 2 Comments
Imagine you would have to pass an applications name as an url parameter. There is a shorter way of doing this without having to use a temporary variable.
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Check whether an object is pointing to the same instance than another one
April 16, 2012 · By Christian Ready · 4 Comments
Sometimes it is important to know whether a certain variable points to the same instance of a complex object than another one. You can easily find that out with the following operator
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Using CFML tags in cfscript
April 09, 2012 · By Christian Ready · No Comments
CFML only has some equivalents to the available tags in CFSCRIPT. In Railo you can now use almost all tags by just removing the <cf and replacing the last > with a ;
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Defining new queries
April 02, 2012 · By Christian Ready · 7 Comments
When you need to create a query object, it can be a bit complicated to create one with several columns and rows. Railo makes it easy.
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Migrating a server to a new platform
March 26, 2012 · By Christian Ready · No Comments
Preserving your settings from one platform to another is as easy as copying some XML files.
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CFLOOP over arrays as collections
March 19, 2012 · By Christian Ready · No Comments
Keep your array loops clean using <cfloop type="collection">
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Configuring Railo Resources
March 12, 2012 · By Christian Ready · No Comments
Configure your Railo archive to with resource proivder arguments
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