Is there a parameter to specify what version of Co...
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Patrick
08/28/2023, 2:26 AMIs there a parameter to specify what version of Coldbox you want to use when using the
coldbox create appb
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:07 PM@Patrick The version of COldBox is determined by the version of the template
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:07 PMHOwever, in previous versions, there wasn't a good correlation so it was confusing
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:07 PMA while back I think we started versioning our templates to match the major version of the coldbox version they included
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:08 PMSo, for example, here is our default template
https://github.com/coldbox-templates/default/releases
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Patrick
08/28/2023, 5:08 PMSo I installed Coldbox 6.4 only into my dir. Then did
coldbox create app crapb
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:08 PMYou can see the most recent versions are 7. and they include COldBox 7
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:09 PMIf you go back about 4 versions, you can see there is
6.25.0bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:10 PMNow, that said, it sounds like you're doing something odd. You should only eve run these scaffolding commands in an empty folder
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:10 PMThey will completely overwrite any files you may already have there!
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:10 PMAlso, each template takes care of installing ColdBOx, so there's no use case where you would first install coldbox and then run a scaffolding app command
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Patrick
08/28/2023, 5:11 PMso how do I do that create app scaffold to "set" that I want that 6.25.0...I actually looked at the templates on github but couldnt figure out how to force the version
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bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:12 PMI'm getting there...
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:12 PMThe templates are all published to forgebox as packages
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:12 PMThe default one is here
https://forgebox.io/view/cbtemplate-advanced-script#versions
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:12 PMSo you just specify the install ID in the same format you'd use with the install command.
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:12 PM Copy code
coldbox create app skeleton=cbtemplate-advanced-script@6bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:12 PMin an empty folder
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:13 PMAnd you'll get the latest version of our default template for ColdBox 6
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Patrick
08/28/2023, 5:13 PMAhh so this is what I tried last night:
coldbox create app name=aaa skeleton=default@6.25.0b
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:13 PMThat was a good guess
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Patrick
08/28/2023, 5:14 PMyea wouldnt have guessed the cbtemplate name convention. Might want to add some detail to the docs about this
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bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:14 PMcbtemplate-advanced-scriptbdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:14 PMbdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:15 PMBut we've only done an exact check on those little convenience names
https://github.com/ColdBox/coldbox-cli/blob/development/commands/coldbox/create/app.cfc#L98-L101
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:15 PMSo as soon as you go "off road" and want a version, you'll need to use the actual forgebox slug
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:16 PMIt would actually be pretty easy to make what you tried just work 🙂
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Patrick
08/28/2023, 5:16 PMyea I am just not ready to make the v7 shift just yet
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bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:17 PMTake the user inputted
skeletonlistFirst( skeleton, '@' )listRest( skeleton, '@' )p
Patrick
08/28/2023, 5:17 PMAnd yea I was also doing the assumption that having CB installed would allow the command to detect what version template to grab
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bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:17 PMThe only real downside of our little lookup table is the means you can never use a forgebox package that actually matches one of those shortcuts
bdw429s
08/28/2023, 5:18 PMI would merge a pull request that does what I just described
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