If you use Eclipse and are creating a lot of Model Glue project check out Wayne Grahams ANT script. Not only does it help you create a MG project quickly, but if like me you don't know ANT all too well its a good guide to creating your own build.xml files.

More of a reminder to myself. But when adding text to .xml files (in my case the beans.xml) don't forget to Ascii escape characters like £(£).

You can find a pretty comprehensive Ascii list here http://www.lookuptables.com/

Unlike Fusebox there is not a global init variable setting file With MG. If you do need to set up some global vars the way i'm doing this (and seems to be the norm nearly) is:

1. Set up a cfc called /config/beans/global.cfc
2. Create an xml file at /config/beans/global.xml - (for my current site this covered about 5-8 small structures/arrays/values that is used through out the site)
3. In the controller add the following line -
   <cfset variables.global = GetModelGlue().GetConfigBean("global.xml") />
4. and on request start -
   <cfset arguments.event.setValue("global", variables.global) />

Now on any page to get the variable you want you can use
I've seen no documentation on this, but have posted to the Topica List. Sean Corfield has another method using a new controller you can find it on the Topica lists also see the GGCC examples (7/8/9) in his frameworks Pod.


For more information on Config beans in MG see :
Eat Your Beans: ConfigBeans in Model-Glue

Below is a quick run down of the config.xml setting in Model Glue, though i would like to take credit :o) i got this from the MG lists, posted by Doug Hughes

Here's a rundown of the settings:

This is where your application is located. If it's in a subdirectory (or a
mapping put that here.

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