From: Tom Dellaringa <pixelmech@...>
Date: 2006-01-22T07:31:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to get started?

Wow, I've been looking for folks who have done Flash/Ruby integration 
for a month with very little success and here you are! However, I don't 
know C nor do I want to get involved with yet another language - but 
this would delivered strictly over the web.

I've been pointed to various new things, osFlash and some other stuff (a 
library that allows you to do everything in JavaScript) - but it sounds 
like you are saying as long as I have a TCP connection between the two I 
am good to go? I am working on a game where the UI is going to be in 
Flash but the backend in Ruby. It's been real difficult getting info (I 
guess I'm not googling the right stuff! LOL)

I will look into the TCP stuff in the pickaxe book. Totally understand 
about your code, but if you could offer any other suggestions on getting 
me started on the Flash/Ruby integration, I would be really 
appreciative.

Thanks!

Tom

Scott Weeks wrote:
> I do a lot of work in the standalone kiosk market and because of that I
> end up writing backends for Flash quite often. Ruby is excellent for
> the task because of its easy integration with C (thus hooking into
> hardware is a snap) and... well..., it's Ruby :-)
> 
> Depending on how you are managing your backend the whole rails stack
> might not be necessary. I'd certainly use ActiveRecord for persistence
> but all you really need is a TCP socket server that Flash can talk to.
> The Flash itself can be served via static HTML pages (or within a Rails
> based website).
> 
> Check out the Pickaxe documentation for the TCP libraries and do a
> little googling, that should get you started.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't post the stuff that I work on in that area
> because it's commercial and I'd be killed by ravening management types.



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