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by Huw Collingbourne.
Original Post: Ruby On Rails With Flex
Feed Title: Ruby In Steel
Feed URL: http://www.sapphiresteel.com/spip.php?page=backend
Feed Description: Developers' Blog of the Ruby In Steel and Amethyst (Adobe Flex) IDEs for Visual Studio
If you are bored with HTML front ends to your Rails applications, you may want to trying giving them a Flex makeover. Flex is the name of Adobe's web framework and one of its specialities is that it can use Flash graphics to create a good-looking, browser-based interactive interfaces. The good news for Rails developers is that Flex and Rails work well together - with a little bit of effort, anyhow. The real secret is to get Rails to format data as XML. It can then send that XML to (...)