From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T15:38:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby integrated with Flash in place of actionscript

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On 6/20/07, Ryan Mohr <ryan.mohr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Soon, Silverlight will support developing flash-like applications with
> > Ruby (IronRuby), but I probably wouldn't trust microsoft with my dev
> > platform if I could choose.
>
> Exactly.  I like Adobe (have family that works there so I can get killer
> deals) but I hate actionscript enough that I'd consider Silverlight if
> it allowed me to use ruby.  Most of the work I do is in ruby on rails,
> with a few flash components tossed in the mix so I'd prefer to keep it
> all in ruby if I could.


I hate to be a broken record, but there's no Flash player for Ubuntu-PPC,
which is what I am running. I also like Flash, but you have to consider
that.

That said, maybe you should look here:
http://alph.rubyforge.org/


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