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September 11, 2006
Flex and Rails - Destined to be together?
Sometimes you go away on vacation for two days, and nothing big happens, and then other times you go away and things pile on, like last week. I was away on Thursday and Friday, but work continued in the Flex and Ruby on Rails community.
First, Peter Armstrong released the first edition of a book he's working on called "Flexible Rails", which you can buy for $20 USD for individual users up to $200 USD for a 30 copy enterprise edition. His blog post gives a look at the entire table of contents, and the code for all the samples in the book is also available.
While Peter was working on that, Derek Wischusen was updating the Ruby on Rails RIA SDK to include a new sample: Flex Paint. Using a Flex interface, you can upload an image and draw simple lines on it. Then, using a Ruby on Rails backend, you can save that image out to a .jpg file. This builds on the that James Ward built, using a Java backend to save the image. The code to that sample is available from the Subversion repository of the Ruby on Rails RIA SDK. I will be updating the .zip download in the near future. Join the RoR RIA SDK mailing list to keep up to date with all the discussions about Ruby on Rails and Flex working together.
Finally, word from the Midnight Coders that they've added support for native serialization of associations within active record models in WebORB on Rails. Very cool.
technorati tags:flex, rubyonrails, adobe
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