Two of the 3 projects I'm working on right now will be built using cfrails for at least some of the development. The third has such a strange architecture that I've never worked with before as to make it hard to see how I might integrate cfrails with it (it's already in version 1, and we've picked it up for version 2 and 3). With the other two, I've already integrated it, and it's quite simple to do.
Therefore, I thought I'd provide some insight in case someone else needed to do it. Both applications are already well established, but we're basically building new subapplications for them, and I've already integrated it for use with single-table manager mini-apps.
Basically, instead of using the provided index.cfm, which routes all the requests, we've already got index.cfms which are used. Now, two options are available here: either use the cfrails index.cfm, and "include" the old one where it says to include the default page, or just change the name of the cfrails index.cfm entirely.
To avoid any potential trouble, I just changed the name. So, now I have cfrails.cfm, where any links that point to actions that cfrails takes care of should go to. So, instead of having index.cfm/controller/action, you'll have cfrails.cfm/controller/action.
Since these applications are already well established, I didn't bother creating any layouts - so the page titles aren't exactly representative of each page, but it helped in that I could just wrap cfrails with the current template, and I was done.
Except, for one last issue: clicking on links back to the "old" part of the application meant that cfrails was looking for actions called "thispage.cfm," and didn't know how to handle it. So, in the newly (re)named cfrails.cfm, I just needed a simple check (after the action was extracted from the URL):
<cfif findnocase(".cfm", action)>
<cflocation url="../../#action#">
</cfif>
It's not something anyone couldn't have figured out, for sure. But, I was just amazed at how easy it was, because this was never a design consideration. I was building it for use on a completely fresh application.
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