Category Archives: Ruby

I heart Merb

June 27, 2007 – 10:53 pm

Yes every new framework sets my heart a flutter, but this time it’s for real.
Developing Flex/Flash on top of Rails? What if you could get ActiveRecord and RESTful routing at almost eight times the speed with 75% less RAM? How about all that and real concurrency, including true multiple file upload? All of the above [...]

By Alastair | Also posted in Flash, Flex, Merb | Comments (2)

ActiveRecord and Flex

May 1, 2007 – 11:58 am

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 [...]

By Alastair | Also posted in Flash, Flash Remoting, Flex | Comments (4)