Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2

Product Description

Flexible Rails is a unique, application-based guide for using Ruby on Rails 2 and Adobe Flex 3 to build rich Internet applications (RIAs). It is not an exhaustive Ruby on Rails or Flex reference. Instead, it is an extensive tutorial in which the reader builds multiple iterations of an interesting RIA using Flex and Rails together.

Author Peter Armstrong walks readers through eleven iterations in which the sample application--pomodo--is variously built, refactored, debugged, sliced, diced and otherwise explored from every conceivable angle with respect to Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex. The book unfolds both the application and the Flex-on-Rails approach side-by-side.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #131112 in Books
* Published on: 2008-01-23
* Format: Illustrated
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Peter Armstrong is a professional developer who has been working with Flex full-time since July 2004 and Ruby on Rails since mid-2005--that's before Rails 1.0. His background includes five years of working with Java Swing and a brief stint with PHP during the dotcom bubble in 2000.
Customer Reviews

Best book for ROR with Flex5
I found it best technical book till date but you should know Flex & Ruby before you can jump into this..

Great combination of technologies5
I have used Flex for about a year and I have only dabbled in Ruby/Rails development. I have been curious how I might back a Flex front end with a simple service layer that isn't hard to create, maintain or host. So far I have only worked with Java/Spring/Hibernate backend services which can take a little while to build and integrate (Grails is MUCH faster).

After about 100 pages I'm in interation 4 building an interesting RIA with a Rails backend that I can host on relatively inexpensive server if I wanted to. My only struggles thus far was getting MySQL going properly. But that was only because I forgot a step in installing it.

If you have little exposure to Rails and/or Flex and you feel at home on the command line as well as you do in an IDE like Eclipse, this is a great "project" book for you. I'd say you probably want a primer in Ruby, Rails and Flex before you get going but it is pretty easy follow and has a lot of free professional advice from someone that has obviously been around the block a few times. Peter is very upfront about some things that he has done in the book that should not be considered "best practice".

I am hoping to get some good insight how I might do something similar for Flex and Grails. Regardless, I am confident this is going to be a fun journey!

great book5
This is a great book. Peter is the #1 expert in Flex + Rails.