Oct 15
Flex and RoR on Flex Developer Center
Ruby on Rails has made its first appearance on the Flex Developers Center. To help spread the word about both Flex and Rails, I recently put together an article for the Developer Center that covers the basics of integrating Flex with Rails. You can check it out here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex2_rails.html
The article basically describe how to develop the issue tracker app that I put together for the Flex RoR SDK.
If you have a chance, take a look and let me know if you find any glaring errors.
Special thanks to Mike Potter and Amy X. Wong (the editor at the Developer Center)  for their help in putting this together.
March 16th, 2007 at 4:18 am
Derek,
Great tutorial. Thanks.
Flex HTTPService talks to your Rails REST interface. I noticed that you created your own REST with a simple Rails controller of your own.
Do you know how HTTPSerice could be made to interact with the REST URLs that are autogenerated in Rails 1.2 by this command:
script/generate scaffold_resource Post
An example URL: http://localhost:3000/posts/show/3.xml
Do you know how it’s possible to append “.xml” to the end of the HTTPService URL in Flex Actionscript? Is that a good design?
I’d rather use the standard, built-in REST URLs to be consistent with the rest of the world.
- BP