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This has to be one of the most exciting things that I have read in a long time.  While reading this article on Read/Write Web about the Future of Web Apps conference I came across this little tidbit of information about a new project called IronMonkey:

‘IronMonkey’ will bring Python and Ruby support to the Tamarin runtime. Basically the goal seems to be to turn Tamarin into a multi-scripting-language runtime so rather than writing JS in web pages they developer could write python or ruby code…

Tamarin is of course also known as the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2 to be precise). So, this may be wishful thinking, but this could, potentially, mean that sometime in the distant future we would be using Ruby or Python in our Flash/Flex apps. Right now it looks like the project is just an idea, but it is definitely something to keep an eye on.

I’ve finally gotten around to adding the source code for the image converter sample app to the Flex RoR SDK.

You can download the full SDK at the google code site or if you just want source for the image converter then you can get it here.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

This site, whenever I get around to setting it up, will be dedicated to the Flex RoR community (all five of us).