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Symphony of Ruby on Rails and Flex through RubyAMF

Sasha Dzeletovic, Thursday, September 25, 2008 @ 12:27 pm

In a project that I am currently a part of, we inherited Ruby on Rails from our client's system and project front-end was designated to be developed in Flex. RubyAMF came naturally.

I have been working with two other AMF frameworks prior to this: AMFPHP and WebOrb. My experience with both was that they are fairly hard to set up and once you go through that minefield, everything works excellent. No need to say that I am a great advocate of AMF in general. RubyAMF brings the same good old AMF but with a stunning ease and speed of development!

My colleague working on the Ruby side, Justin Ficke, introduced me to code and architecture of Ruby on Rails and I was impressed to see with what ease, precision and speed can one develop it.

Justin and I put a little test together of this architecture and here is a screen cast of it.

All the lovely custom typed objects and speed of data transfer are there. Beauty of it, appart from obvious benefits from AMF, is that the development process couldn't have been better and faster.

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Comments: 2 so far

  1. The example is really cool but what about a bigger Flex App.

    I have been trying to build Flex front-end to a RoR webservice and this is pretty painful (event with RubyAMF).

    Flex seems to be pretty poor and/or ugly when it game to build a whole application with a RESTFul back-end.

    The solution could come from the Ruboss framework but from my early tests, it’s young and suffers from a big lack of documentation.

    Have you got any good idea for drying Flex code in these cases.

    Comment by jblanche, Friday, September 26, 2008 @ 10:36 am

  2. [...] more information in the case study on the Pathfinder web site, Sasha has written a related post on RubyAMF and Flex from the Flex perspective , and Justin has written one on Rails, AMF and Flex from the Rails [...]

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