ColdMVC Plugins and Cells in Rails

I haven't posted in awhile because I haven't felt like I've had anything good to write about, but I've been reading Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware and one trick to getting over a writer's block is to just write for the sake of writing. So that's what I'm going to attempt to do in the coming weeks.

Lately I've been continuing to work on ColdMVC, my convention-based framework for ColdFusion inspired by Ruby on Rails and Grails. I've mainly been working on updating the plugin architecture for ColdMVC, with a focus on keeping things modular. I've also split out all of the plugins to their own repositories on GitHub to try to make things easier to manage. Right now they all follow a "ColdMVC-{Plugin}" naming convention and can be found here.

I'm also trying to get an official ColdMVC website up with some documentation and links to all the various plugins, but haven't quite got around to it yet.

On a final note, I've found a couple really good blog posts talking about cells in Ruby on Rails.

• Rails Misapprehensions: Cells don’t break MVC
  


• Rails Misapprehensions: What the f*ck is MVP?
  


• Let’s write a Reusable Sidebar Component in Rails 3!
  

I quickly threw together a cells plugin for ColdMVC. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet, but at the very least it's an interesting concept.

7 reasons I switched back to ColdFusion...

First, read this article: 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails.

Now, read it again, only this time replace the word "PHP" with "ColdFusion".

Languages are like frameworks: it doesn't really matter which one you use, they all pretty much do the same thing. There is no Holy Grail. In the end, it's all just a bunch of 0's and 1's that can help you get things done.