Flexible Rails
by Armstrong, PeterFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher(s): Manning Pubns Co
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Summary
Flexible Rails is a unique, application-based guide for using Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex to build rich Internet applications (RIAs). It is not an exhaustive Ruby on Rails or a 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 over a dozen 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.
Author Biography
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.
Table of Contents
| Getting started | p. 1 |
| Why are we here? Where are we going? | p. 3 |
| Hello World | p. 14 |
| Getting started | p. 52 |
| Building the application | p. 103 |
| Creating the main Flex UI | p. 105 |
| Expanding the Rails code, RESTfully | p. 118 |
| Flex on Rails | p. 186 |
| Validation | p. 261 |
| Refactoring | p. 293 |
| Refactoring to Cairngorm | p. 295 |
| Holding state on the client properly | p. 369 |
| Finishing up | p. 419 |
| Finishing the application | p. 421 |
| Refactoring to RubyAMF | p. 468 |
| Rails on AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) | p. 512 |
| How to use Subversion with Flex + Rails | p. 539 |
| Handwaving at omitted topics | p. 543 |
| Index | p. 547 |
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