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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:
 

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...

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!

There are a lot of people out there in the CFML world managing legacy codebases.  Some of them use frameworks that are no longer maintained, and many  use no framework at all.  A common question that I get is whether an app can be slowly converted over to  ColdBox without having to rewrite everything at once.  The answer is YES!  ColdBox will comfortably live alongside your legacy code, giving you the chance to slowly convert it over as you get the chance.  

Team TestBox is proud to bring our latest release to fruition, v2.2.0.  This release includes a collection of fixes but also several new cool features like gherkins-like syntax support, spec data binding, test listeners and much more.  We invite you to read our updated documentation book and the what's new page for an in-depth overview of the release.

• What's new with v2.2.0
• TestBox BDD Refcard
• Download

You can also very easily get started or update your project with TestBox via CommandBox CLI for ColdFusion (CFML):

# install testbox
box install testbox

# update testbox
box update testbox

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Major Features

Below you can find quick updates on our major features for this release.

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