From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@...>
Date: 2005-04-14T06:18:02+09:00
Subject: Re: What's beyond Rails?

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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.

-Ezra
On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Douglas Livingstone wrote:

> On 4/13/05, James Toomey <jamesvtoomey@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Somewhat off-topic rant: This isn't so much a dig at Rails but a
>> critique of HTML in general.
>
> That's what Macromedia is trying to sell you!
>
> Flash MX with Flash Communication Server.
>
> It isn't quite fast enough to write photoshop in it, but that's what
> people are trying to do.
>
> On the other end, if we could get programmable SGV (imo we need a
> "canvas" of some sort to get close to excel apps) there might be
> something there, or you could try XBL/XUL of some sort. (I'd love to
> be able to do client side Ruby XBL interfaces...)
>
> Douglas
>
>
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
Yakima Herald-Republic
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