In our ColdBox RESTFul RoadShow this month, we've been talking about why ColdBox is the fastest and easiest ways to build a robust REST API in CFML.  One of the very powerful features of the ColdBox MVC Platform is that you can use modules to break your apps and APIs up into management chunks  instead of building a monolith.  Modules also let you decouple pieces of your application so multiple teams can work on different parts.  And with the power of CommandBox's CLI and package manager to assemble your app's dependencies, you can even store modules in a completely separate code repository!   This is exactly what we're going to demo today.

Relax version 2.2.0, for Coldbox, is now available and includes a number of bug fixes and improvements.  Relax, aptly subtitled "RESTful tools for lazy experts", is a Coldbox module, which makes it easy for developers to conduct modeling, documentation and testing for their

In our last blog post, we talked about the ColdBox REST Template, a great way to use Commandbox to spin up a REST Application Template, and get started with ColdBox RESTful services. That doesn’t work if you have an existing application, and you want to add to it. That is why we have created a easy to install Module that you can just plug into your application.

One of the newest additions to the ColdBox application templates and also the CommandBox generation templates is our REST application template.  This template will get you started with creating ColdBox RESTFul services. The best way to start with it is by downloading CommandBox, as we will use this for generation, scaffolding and as your integrated server. Then we can start working on our RESTFul service:
 

mkdir myservice
box coldbox create app skeleton=rest name=MyService --installColdBox

Once you execute these CLI commands, you will have a new RESTFul service application ready to go.  The next step is to startup an ad-hoc server and test it out:
 

box server start --rewritesEnable

This will open a browser window with the results of your first RESTFul service:
 

Venue

We are so excited to bring this month a RESTFul roadshow based on ColdBox technologies.  We will have several blog posts all month long and several live webinars from the team as well.  Below you can find a schedule of our presentations that we will be conducting live.  We will also record them and publish them in our Vimeo and YouTube channel...

 
We are so excited to bring you a new major version of ProfileBox, version 2.0.0.  This is a major re-architecture of the profiling module so it can work with FusionReactor 6, ColdBox 4 and Lucee CFML Engine. You can kick the tires with our

At Ortus, we try to make the installation of our tools as simple as possible, while supporting a variety of platforms.  For OS X users, staying up-to-date with your CommandBox installations just got a bit easier.   

CommandBox is now an official formula for Homebrew, the package manager for Mac users!

Today we are announcing a patch release of 3.0.1 for CommandBox CLI users.  This is a very small release that contains a single fix for those using the new server.json feature of CommandBox 3.0.0.  

New Stuff

Properties weren't being read correctly from the server.json file.  If you have been using server.jso...