From: Peter Fitzgibbons <Peter.Fitzgibbons@...>
Date: 2005-04-15T06:19:25+09:00
Subject: Re: What's beyond Rails?

>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.