Peter Fitzgibbons
4/14/2005 9:19:00 PM
>James Britt wrote:
>
>Peter Suk wrote:
>> On Apr 13, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
>>
>>> You could take a peek at amf4r. It's on the raa. This lib lets you
>>> write your front end in flash and use ruby on the server instead of
>>> macromedia's proprietary communication server. amf stands for action
>>> message format and its a binary format used to ferry objects back
and
>>> forth between actionscript and ruby. You can pass just params or
>>> arrays or hashes but the coolest thing is you can basically
>>> instantiate your server side ruby objects in actionscript and call
>>> methods on them from flash. It's pretty cool because of the
>>> flexibility of flash interfaces. It's not going to let you write
>>> server side photoshop any time soon but its a huge leap forward as
>>> far as interfaces go above html.
>>
>>
>> What would be really cool would be a way for a server-side Ruby
>> program to instantiate Flash GUIs. (Maybe written as a TK
emulation.)
>
>I believe this thread has already mentioned the Alph project. And you
could use Laszlo with Ruby.
>
>
>James
>
How would Ruby be used with Laszlo? Jruby? Or only .rhtml as sources
for data?
Thanks.
Peter Fitzgibbons.