Comments on: Rails, AMF and Flex

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By: sean

sean — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:18:14 +0000

@jblanche – Flex is great, but if you’ve never used it before you’ll definitely end up writing obtuse code.

Try the Mate Framework – it is very good and definitely mature enough for production now.

Keep in mind that Flex is much more powerful than HTML/JS for a front-end, but it is also much more difficult. Be patient with it, or hire a Flex developer.

By: jblanche

jblanche — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:25:41 +0000

I’m copiing/pasting a comment I have made in a previous Flex and rails blog post :

The example is really cool but what about a bigger Flex App.

I have been trying to build Flex front-end to a RoR webservice and this is pretty painful (event with RubyAMF).

Flex seems to be pretty poor and/or ugly when it game to build a whole application with a RESTFul back-end. (with more than one remote Object)

The solution could come from the Ruboss framework but from my early tests, it’s young and suffers from a big lack of documentation.

Have you got any good idea for drying Flex code in these cases.