Derek shows how to push AMF encoded messages from the server with Rails through BlazeDS.
Ted introduces the Yahoo! map components for AS3.
Combine the two and you could build a Flex/Rails app that tracks someone’s position in real time.
The comparison is coming from one of the horses mouths so take it with a grain a salt. That said I think Adobe tried not to step on some Ajax toes and didn’t make a strong enough case for Flex.
It’s a good basic overview but there are a couple of things I disagree with;
Why use [...]
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HotGigs has a feature where they collect and aggregate the hourly bill rates of the consultants on their site. Here are the average hourly bill rates for Flex, Flash, and Ruby, surprisingly they have sub-categories for Flash all the way down to Flash Remoting but there’s just one category for Ruby with no Rails sub-category.
For [...]
Aaron has a series of posts on developing a system for stress testing AMF.
The setup: AMF Stress Testing – Flex, Ruby, JMeter.
The screen cast: Stress Testing AMF Gateway Screen Capture
The results: 37 Million (requests in), 9 hours.
That’s pretty amazing.
The next morning, we had the Live Search team from M$ asking us how the hell we [...]
Also posted in ActionScript, Flash, Flex |
SWX Ruby is a port of SWX (originaly PHP), which claims to be “Ruby’s fastest library for exchanging data with Flash” I haven’t tried it because it doesn’t yet support Flash player 9 but I wouldn’t doubt it’s the fastest as many other methods aren’t too speedy (Although RubyAMF is much quicker lately).
as3yaml, you guessed [...]
From Ted (on flex) and Ryan Stewart.
Most are guessing AMF will be open sourced, anything that makes AMF more popular will be good news.
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There are some new RubyAMF screencasts up, Aaron Smith walks you through tutorials on…
Flex with stand-alone RubyAMF
Flex with the RubyAMF Rails plug-in
Flash and authentication
Flash and custom fault objects
RubyAMF is also now 1.2 with respond_to functionality, so you can use one controller action to return anything your heart desires RHTML, AMF, XML, JSON you name it.
def [...]
RubyAMF now can be used as a Rails plugin or you can run it as a Mongrel process. There’s a nice screencast on Rails integration here.
The one-man RubyAMF show that is Aaron Smith also has a Super Simple Remoting class to get you up and running super simply.
Ruby has gone from no AMF support to [...]
The Midnight Coders have released A new version of WebORB for PHP. There’s a bunch of new features which equal, if not leap-frog, thos in AMFPHP. Their post runs through the top ten new features, but my favorites are #6 client/server class mapping
Client/server class mapping configuration. Since this is one of the most common tasks [...]
Also posted in Flash, Flex, PHP |
The majority of work I do is Flash/Flex and Rails so ActiveRecord, which is the M in the Rails MVC, is really the only part of Rails I use. I’ve always wished I could get ‘Rails Lite’ (In this case Camping doesn’t count) and just use ActiveRecord to pass data back and forth. My wish [...]
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