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January 15, 2007
An Update On Flex and Ruby on Rails Integration
There's been a lot of work lately on improving integration between Flex and Ruby on Rails. Here's an update on what's been done lately, and how you can get involved. Carlos Eduardo has created an open source Flex scaffolding project that allows you to easily create a Flex application that talks to Rails. Check out his code in Ruby Forge, or this screencast demo that he's created.
Recently as well, Ilya Devers has been working on an open source Flex / Cairngorm generator for Ruby on Rails. For those of you unfamiliar with Cairngorm, its a framework for more complex Flex based RIAs. You can find out more about Cairngorm on Adobe Labs. Ilya's code is available on Google Code as an open source project.
(We've also recently moved a number of ActionScript 3 Libraries to Google Code as well. Check out this post by Mike Chambers for more information, or this search on Google Code for ActionScript projects.)
Derek Wischusen is writing a series of articles explaining Ruby on Rails and Cairngorm integration using WebORB for Ruby on Rails. Check out his great work at flexonrails.net.
Finally, Flexible Rails is a PDF book that outlines a number of connections between Flex and Ruby on Rails. If you're developing with Flex and Ruby on Rails, you'll definitely want to pick it up.
If you're interested in Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex, then you should join the Ruby on Rails RIA Google Group that discusses integration between Flex and Rails.
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Hey Mike, I started RUBYAMF. http://www.rubyamf.org/ Which is another alternative for flash remoting using ruby. Lot's of work going on. It will have rails integration and AMF3 support. I will be releasing a beta as soon as AMF3 and RemoteObject are supported.. Which shouldn't be too far out.. maybe a couple weeks..
Currently all AMF0 is supported, authentication, pageable record sets, ActiveRecords!, soon rails integration. Then onto AMF3.
smith.
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