# Anybody using Macromedia's Flex with Rails?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 9, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anybody-using-macromedias-flex-with-rails/60010 "2006-05-09T13:36:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/larrywright)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anybody-using-macromedias-flex-with-rails/60010/1 "2006-05-09T13:36:29Z")

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Yeah I know this is a bit of a weird question since everybody seems to  
be  
going ajax - just curious

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**Author:** ![larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/larrywright)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anybody-using-macromedias-flex-with-rails/60010/2 "2006-05-09T14:39:22Z")

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Maybe Flex is not flexible enough for a rails backend. And the typical  
RoR  
developers prefers to stay away form flash anyway. But there is this  
openlaszlo project with rails backend and today I have learned that  
there is  
[http://www.getindi.com](http://www.getindi.com), which is based on actionstep flash framework and  
has  
a rails serverside

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**Author:** ![larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/larrywright)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anybody-using-macromedias-flex-with-rails/60010/3 "2006-05-09T15:25:27Z")

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Larry W. wrote:

> Yeah I know this is a bit of a weird question since everybody seems to  
> be  
> going ajax - just curious

I’m trying to integrate Flex with Rails. I’m finding Flex extremely good  
and easy to use. Flex is Free The SDK and compiler cost nothing. Adobe  
are making the money on the IDE Flex Builder. I think the best thing  
about Flex is that it can easily consume and publish to XML based URL  
services to create dynamic applications with a rich client. At the  
moment I’m porting my cms, eribium ([http://www.eribium.org](http://www.eribium.org)), to Flex so  
people will have an alternative to html/ajax, get all the benefits from  
a rich internet application and be able to log in directly from the  
desktop, without a browser. Stuart E. has some great tutorials on  
integrating flex with rails:  
[http://www.liverail.net/articles/2006/04/16/rubyonrails-1-1-and-flex-2-0-pt-1](http://www.liverail.net/articles/2006/04/16/rubyonrails-1-1-and-flex-2-0-pt-1)  
[http://www.liverail.net/articles/2006/05/06/rubyonrails-1-1-and-flex-2-0-pt-2](http://www.liverail.net/articles/2006/05/06/rubyonrails-1-1-and-flex-2-0-pt-2)

Cheers, Alex