# Swf's and rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfs-and-rails/52379>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 13, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfs-and-rails/52379 "2006-01-13T12:46:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jlm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jlm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jlm)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfs-and-rails/52379/1 "2006-01-13T12:46:52Z")

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Hi I have started using rails eg: rform and typo, but mostly I do flash  
dev (I know you guys decided you did not want flash content and used the  
name for something else!). Anyway what experiments have people been  
doing, anyone been Ajaxing flash content within rails application or  
even just embedding in rails, I did not really find anything on using  
flash in Typo, not that you can’t probably just hack it in where you  
want, but really it would be better if was fitted with rails structures  
and since I am very much a newbie I wanted to gain some ideas from  
experts and I was thinking really for just fairly static flash you would  
want a generic structure that replaced content that was not supported.

Also if I want to run rforum and typo on the same server is it difficult  
and can I embed the rforum on typo page?

Anyone got any pointers ideas, read discussions after all no point in  
clean ruby structures if we then just shove stuff in willy nilly.

Justin

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**Author:** ![jlm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jlm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jlm)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfs-and-rails/52379/2 "2006-01-13T15:16:36Z")

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Here’s one example that seems to work pretty well (includes code  
snippets).

[http://www.onrails.org/articles/2005/07/31/dvdreleases-integrating-](http://www.onrails.org/articles/2005/07/31/dvdreleases-integrating-)  
flash-with-ruby-on-rails

Steven

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**Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfs-and-rails/52379/3 "2006-01-13T16:25:35Z")

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Steven S. wrote:

> Here’s one example that seems to work pretty well (includes code  
> snippets).
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> [http://www.onrails.org/articles/2005/07/31/dvdreleases-integrating-](http://www.onrails.org/articles/2005/07/31/dvdreleases-integrating-)  
> flash-with-ruby-on-rails
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> Steven

Hi there,

here is another aproach to integrate Flash with Rails:

[http://www.osflash.org/actionstep\_rails](http://www.osflash.org/actionstep_rails)

Unfortunately this is the only resource about this topic (expect some  
half year old blog entries). This looks really great, but I would like  
to see more and have tutorial at least about the integration. Does  
anybody knows something about this? I would really like to get my hands  
on this.

Dirk

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**Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfs-and-rails/52379/4 "2006-01-13T18:37:11Z")

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I must agree with you Justin! I found nothing about that ActionStep and  
Rails project that could help to get it work properly.

Stevens approach looks good, but I hadn’t the time to have a deeper  
look. Maybe you can find that link you mentioned, that would be great.  
Anyhow, I’m also interested in this topic, because I have actually a  
data visualization project. A flash viz would be surely great. If  
anybody else have an idea about making this possible, don’t be shy 🙂

Dirk

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**Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfs-and-rails/52379/5 "2006-01-13T18:52:52Z")

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Dirk

Link I was thinking of

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I have done some Cd XML tweeny menus flash & games etc and am looking  
for work, I do not know much RoR yet but… if you want details of my  
flash let me know. Otherwise might be good to try doing some shared  
experiemental stuff I aim to have a mini forum with flash/swish/rails  
on. I have made classes that parse RSS that comes out of a rail apps  
and it is obviously an interesting area but complex.

JLM

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**Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfs-and-rails/52379/6 "2006-01-19T22:23:20Z")

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See [groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails/](http://groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails/)

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**Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfs-and-rails/52379/7 "2006-01-13T18:19:53Z")

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Steven

Thanks good link.

Dirk

I think that is Richard K.'s project I spent hours trying to get  
somewhere with an earlier project of his ‘alph’ and gave up left  
comments but never got any replies one or two sharp folk at 12stones  
also tried to get ‘alph’ to work and couldn’t due to lack of any proper  
documentation or correct files etc… and he is mac based? So I am  
reluctant to chase that one - maybe I am wrong, I expect it works and is  
good but I will not hold my breath for access! Sorry to be negative but  
not heard of anyone else use ‘alph’ and I did look  
hard.[http://richkilmer.blogs.com/ether/2003/12/project\_alph.html](http://richkilmer.blogs.com/ether/2003/12/project_alph.html)

Might be better to look at javascript to flash stuff using External API,  
I lost the link right now but it was impressive what they could do but I  
could not make much sense of how it all went together.

I was thinking rails maps ruby objects to database, well we need  
something similar for the front end… the link steven posted does not  
seem to be using the External API which I would think is the best way to  
go for the future. Alternatively I have seen some people communicating  
with swish via javascript (gsb), craftymind has also done stuff on this  
with flash and he did not seem overly impressed with the opensource  
javascript integration kit but maybe it has changed.

Anyway I am interest in this area and want to get some discussions going  
since flash is a hassle to database and a simple rail (typo)standard  
hook up would be a good idea.

JLM