Flexible Rails
Flex 3 on Rails 2
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2007
592 pages
978-1-63835-430-7 (ISBN)
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.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
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.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
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Person
Peter Armstrong has been developing rich client applications for over 7 years. He worked with Flex full-time from July 2004 (since Flex 1.0) to October 2007 for a Silicon Valley startup, and was part of the team that won the 2006 Adobe MAX Award for RIA/Web Development. Before that, he was a Java Swing developer for over 4 years for another Silicon Valley startup. On the Rails side, Peter has been tracking Ruby on Rails since mid-2005 (since before Rails 1.0) and is the organizer of The Vancouver Ruby/Rails Meetup group. Peter is also a frequent speaker on using Flex and Rails together, including presentations at The Vancouver Flash/Flex Meetup, a RailsConf 2007 BOF, The Vancouver RIA Developer Camp and Rails to Italy in Pisa. Peter lives in the Vancouver, BC area and works as a Flex/AIR/Flash developer, writer (www.flexiblerails.com) and independent consultant (www.ruboss.com).
Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Cover Illustration
- Part 1. Getting started
- Chapter 1. Why are we here? Where are we going?
- Chapter 2. Hello World
- Chapter 3. Getting started
- Part 2. Building the application
- Chapter 4. Creating the main Flex UI
- Chapter 5. Expanding the Rails code, RESTfully
- Chapter 6. Flex on Rails
- Chapter 7. Validation
- Part 3. Refactoring
- Chapter 8. Refactoring to Cairngorm
- Chapter 9. Holding state on the client properly
- Part 4. Finishing up
- Chapter 10. Finishing the application
- Chapter 11. Refactoring to RubyAMF
- Chapter 12. Rails on AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime)
- Appendix A. How to use Subversion with Flex + Rails
- Appendix B. Handwaving at omitted topics
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
