From: Peter Suk <peter.kwangjun.suk@...>
Date: 2005-04-14T07:37:53+09:00
Subject: Re: What's beyond Rails?

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.)

--Peter

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