Model Glue Validation & Sample Application

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Permalink Reply by Mathias Aebischer on November 29, 2007 at 11:52am

Hi Fernando

I'd recommend you to read the following article series:

http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2007/1/19/So-you-want-to-create-a-M...
and
http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2006/3/13/Building-your-fir...
(there should be links to the following parts)

I'm just working on my first Model Glue project myself so I'm not much of an expert but I think this 2 article series should get you a good starting point.

Good luck

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Permalink Reply by Fernando Lopez çB^]\.. on November 29, 2007 at 2:36pm

Thanks Mathias
I'm already familiar with both series and I'm still trying to get a grip on creating objects out of thin air with coldspring. I don't even want to start looking into scaffolding because that's a sure headache for me right now.

I did find two things that look really promising into trying to understand the whole OOP and Model Glue.

• First one Ray Martin http://roy.empiregn.com/blog he has a neat 35 minute video presentation on hoe to refactor a purely Spaghetti code page into components. He's preparing the stage to introduce Model Glue concepts after that. Refactoring-Inline-Coldfusion-Towards-MVC
  
• Second one, from the Jedi himself. I found that he has a full application www.coldfusioncookbook.com running under MG and he has the code open out there for people to download and see how he did things. Exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. ModelGlue-Sample--Cookbook
• I think I'm on a good way to learn this stuff, there are great resources out there is just a matter of digging for them.
  
  if somebody else has links to good MG tutorials or presentations that can help a noobie, please don't be shy and post back here.
  
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Permalink Reply by Shimju David on November 29, 2007 at 4:39pm

Hi,

This is how I mastered Model-Glue and ColdSpring.

First I dowloaded both frameworks also Reactor and gone through tutorials comes with that - not fully clear and was very interested to see a sample useful application and there comes Rays model-glue series. I downloaded the PDF and followed the series thoroughly and completed the sample app. After that I felt very confident with MG and started my first app and during the development I also reviewed the reference comes with MG.

After successfully completing three MG apps, I was eager to learn ColdSpring and want to effectively use it in my coming MG apps. There comes NoDans series. It helped me a lot to use CS very nicely with MG (also please go through orginal CS docs if you have time) and now I use both very effectively in our current projects.

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Permalink Reply by Nick Tong on February 21, 2008 at 8:09pm

you may find some help at cfFrameworks.com

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