From: Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@...>
Date: 2010-07-14T02:08:25+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby & flash

Ce Vau wrote:
> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>> Ce Vau wrote:
>>> with the variables and the db-connections - i guess. The task is quite a
>>>
>>> My guess is, that files are being cached or mirrored in a way.
>>>
>>> Anyone any idea what to do, where to start?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Andro
>> I'll ask a dumb question: did you rebuild the .swf after changing the
>> .as files?
>>
>> How is the AS code talking to the database? If it's just getting some
>> url, then what happens if you use curl or wget on that url?
> 
> swf was not rebuilt. Didn't see the need... the swf is interacting with 
> the data only through the .as files.

That's a problem. Try rebuilding using the flex compiler (mxmlc). The 
.swf is compiled from the .as (plus other things).

> Now secondly: I'm not sure how the AS is getting the db-values, but it 
> happens - I can tell, because changing the value in the database 
> produces the empty output on the site. That can only mean, that the 
> value is passed in the output rendering process, but the string defined 
> to the value that is supposed to show never makes it to the swf file in 
> the frontend.

If you know so little about how your program works, why do you assume 
there is a ruby-related issue?