Flex/AIR and Rails

Rails
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I’m looking at creating an application using a desktop component built
with Flex/air that communicates with a site running Ruby on Rails.
Does anyone in the group have experience with this, and could you pass
on a few pointers?

Oh and maybe I should mention that I am doing this to learn Flex/
Action script.

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I’m learning to do the same thing, and using “Flexible Rails: Flex 3
on Rails 2”, by Peter A… (In case you need some docs to help
you through this.)

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Brian P. [email protected] wrote:

on a few pointers?

Oh and maybe I should mention that I am doing this to learn Flex/
Action script.

Ok, my little recommendation here is first learn the basics of Flex,
and then start interacting with anything on the server side.
The book Brian mentioned, is a great book, but it doesn’t teach you
nor Flex nor Rails, it assumes you already have basic knowledges of
both technologies.
you can take a look at this[1] Adobe’s site to a serie of screencasts
that covers the start up from essential to advanced topics, and also,
you’ll get a link to the PDF version of Getting Started With Flex 3.
Once you have a basic notion about Flex (two - three days, aprox) then
go for the next part.
For ActionScript, I always used the Flex Builer documentation, it is
the same that is on Adobe’s docs site and is ussually good enough.

Hope it helps.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/

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