# Flex or OpenLaszlo

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/flex-or-openlaszlo/58224>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 19, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/flex-or-openlaszlo/58224 "2006-04-19T19:32:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_MacCaw)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/flex-or-openlaszlo/58224/1 "2006-04-19T19:32:23Z")

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I’m just wondering if anybody has got any experience in integrating Flex  
or OpenLaszlo with Rails and which people prefer.  
I’ve seen some of the tutorials but am pondering which one, if any, I  
should turn to:  
[http://coenraets.com/tutorials/flexonrails/flexonrails.html](http://coenraets.com/tutorials/flexonrails/flexonrails.html)  
[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://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2006/01/announcing-the-openlaszlo-rails-plugin/](http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2006/01/announcing-the-openlaszlo-rails-plugin/)

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**Author:** ![Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_MacCaw)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/flex-or-openlaszlo/58224/2 "2006-04-19T21:21:26Z")

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If you are talking about Flex2, which is the one with the great demos  
and  
the free IDE + SDK, than you should consider that it is just for  
Flashplayer  
8.5, which is still in beta, while Lazslo stuff runs on any  
flashplayer.

They are both somehow similar to RHTML-templating: Code is embedded  
inside  
XML files

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**Author:** ![Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_MacCaw)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/flex-or-openlaszlo/58224/3 "2006-04-19T23:22:40Z")

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I did some tests with Flex and Laszlo (nothing to fancy) and I’ve seen  
that Flex is almost twice as fast as Laszlo.

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**Author:** ![Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Alex\_MacCaw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alex_MacCaw)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/flex-or-openlaszlo/58224/4 "2006-04-20T01:43:53Z")

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I’ve worked with Flex2 and the latest Laszlo release talking to rails  
over  
XML-RPC and SOAP.

Flex2 seems to be more polished, with better interface components.  
Laszlo has less polished components, but they are much easier to extend.

Just my 2 cents 😉

Shawn