New DataFaucet ORM Build Nov 2

Aaargh!

So after having had a really unusual amount of trouble related to the recent changes leading up to the addition of the iterator, I had declared after releasing the iterator CFC that there shouldn't be any new builds for a while. Not that there aren't things to work on, there certainly are planned enhancements. For example right now reinstalling an active record object won't update any columns with modified data types, nor will it prepopulate an existing table with the default value for a new column. Both of those are planned for a future release...

What I hadn't expected however was a FREAKING TYPO in the active record object. Same place. Easy fix, regardless of your relative skill level, because the CF server tells you that "aguments.objectid" is undefined. I'm really surprised by this one actually, because I was pretty certain I'd tested that... but I guess I must have been experiencing source monitoring failure (a false memory) as often happens with the tasks we perform frequently. Of course TDD won't prevent this, because the more often you run your tests, the more likely you are to remember running them successfully when the reality is that you haven't run them.

And oddly enough even though I thought I had tested it, I was also doing a bunch of work with other code that uses the active record and that didn't show this problem either apparently because the only place where I was calling read() with the argument apparently I was also trapping and ignoring errors. Which meant that even though the member plugin for the onTap framework was installing, it was omitting insertions for a number of db records it needed and the security system was just generally not working because it wasn't loading the role and permission records correctly. Oops!

Now that's where TDD would have helped. If I'd had a set of regression tests set up for the member plugin and for DF, I could have run them and seen right away where the problem was, rather than having to go through all that troubleshooting. ;)

Ahh well, it gave me an excuse to enhance the member plugin a little more anyway and set it up to upgrade DF during installation. :)