# Ruby and Flash? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 18, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-flash/62370 "2006-01-18T15:35:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tdellaringa)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-flash/62370/1 "2006-01-18T15:35:04Z")
Hi there, I have an idea for a game I want to build, but it requires Flash as the presentation layer (I’d want to do the back end in Ruby running on Rails.) I have not been able to find any info on the integration of the two, and someone suggested asking here. Any info would be appreciated. Any links to examples would be great too. Thanks - please make sure you respond to me directly via email. Tom ---
**Author:** ![tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tdellaringa)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-flash/62370/2 "2006-01-18T17:05:42Z")
ruby and flash work great together. If the UI is fulll flash, then you will need to write your own serialization framework in actionscript and your rendering in rails or wait for [http://actionstep.org/](http://actionstep.org/) which has some experimental rails support. If your UI is HTML, AJAX and Flash mixed and your clients have Flasplayer 8 and if it is no problem for you, if safari is not supported, then you should take at look at [http://aflax.org/](http://aflax.org/). ---
**Author:** ![tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tdellaringa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-flash/62370/3 "2006-01-19T19:16:00Z")
Or you could use OpenLaszlo at [http://www.openlaszlo.org/](http://www.openlaszlo.org/), as it now compiles to standalone SWF movies and it’s great for data-driven flash apps, a lot better than Flash and ActionScript actually. You’ll need to feed it XML from your RoR app. You’ll find some examples on their site. On 18 Jan 2006, at 16:27, Roberto S. wrote: > I have an idea for a game I want to build, but it requires Flash as > the presentation layer (I’d want to do the back end in Ruby running > on Rails.) I have not been able to find any info on the integration > of the two, and someone suggested asking here. Any info would be > appreciated. Any links to examples would be great too. > > Thanks - please make sure you respond to me directly via email. Best regards Peter De Berdt ---
**Author:** ![tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tdellaringa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-flash/62370/4 "2006-01-19T22:17:17Z")
You might want to check out the Laszlo on Rails project. We are working to make Flash/OpenLaszlo applications integrate with Rails seemlessly. We have made some great strides already. By this time next week or so we should have scaffolding generation on Flash to show off… Mail group is [http://groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails/](http://groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails/) Mike P. Project leader, Laszlo on Rails ---
**Author:** ![tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tdellaringa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-flash/62370/5 "2006-01-19T22:59:33Z")
We are actually already making use of flashobject, but thanks for the pointer. Oliver Steele, the Chief Architect of Laszlo Systems and a former big deal at Apple (creating the Dylan language, leading the graphics team, etc.) is doing the initial work and he seems to have tackled all the hard parts pretty effortlessly. Mike P. ---
**Author:** ![tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tdellaringa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-flash/62370/6 "2006-01-19T22:29:42Z")
Mike P. wrote: > You might want to check out the Laszlo on Rails project. We are > working to make Flash/OpenLaszlo applications integrate with Rails > seemlessly. We have made some great strides already. > > By this time next week or so we should have scaffolding generation on > Flash to show off… > > Mail group is [http://groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails/](http://groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails/) > > Mike P. > Project leader, Laszlo on Rails nice, mike. i’ll definitely be following your progress. in the meantime, for simple serialization into a manually built swf, i’ve been using builder to create dynamic xml which is then slurped by a swf, using geoff’s flashobject to pass in variables([http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/](http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/))â?¦ hope that helps, ian ---
**Author:** ![tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tdellaringa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tdellaringa)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 9:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-flash/62370/7 "2006-02-28T09:28:00Z")
Ian, I much interested how you have done that. Can u send me a sample of your app. rhtml ? and where do u put the swf files ? Rgs, Ch ian kennedy wrote: > Mike P. wrote: > > > You might want to check out the Laszlo on Rails project. We are > > working to make Flash/OpenLaszlo applications integrate with Rails > > seemlessly. We have made some great strides already. > > > > By this time next week or so we should have scaffolding generation on > > Flash to show off… > > > > Mail group is [http://groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails/](http://groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails/) > > > > Mike P. > > Project leader, Laszlo on Rails > > nice, mike. i’ll definitely be following your progress. > > in the meantime, for simple serialization into a manually built swf, > i’ve been using builder to create dynamic xml which is then slurped by a > swf, using geoff’s flashobject to pass in > variables([http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/](http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/))â?¦ > > hope that helps, > ian