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Flex on Rails: Building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 3 and Rails 2


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About the Book

“There’s no question you’re going to be a better Flex and Rails developer when you’re done reading this book.” —From the Foreword by Matt Chotin, Senior Product Manager, Adobe Systems, Inc.   Adobe Flex enables the rapid development of rich and engaging user experiences. Ruby on Rails dramatically simplifies the development of database-driven web applications. Now there’s a book that shows how to use the newest versions of both frameworks together to create state-of-the-art Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).   Flex on Rails begins with the absolute essentials: setting up your environment for Flex and Rails, passing data with XML, and integrating Flex front-ends with Rails back-ends. Then, using practical, easy-to-understand code examples, the authors take you from the basics to advanced topics only discussed in this book. Techniques covered here include  Constructing sophisticated interfaces that can’t be created with AJAX alone Using RESTful services to expose applications for access via APIs Testing Flex and Rails together Using Flex Frameworks Getting Flex into your build/deploy process And more…  The authors also offer practical introductions to powerful complementary technologies, such as RubyAMF and Juggernaut.   Written by developers with extensive experience using both frameworks, this book covers the new Adobe Flex 3 and Ruby on Rails 2 from the ground up. Even if you have minimal experience with Flex or Rails, you’ll learn all you need to know to use them to build exceptional production applications.

Table of Contents:
  Foreword xv Preface xvii Acknowledgments from Tony Hillerson xxi Acknowledgments from Daniel Wanja xxii About the Authors xxiv   PART I: Flex and Rails Essentials   Chapter 1: Developing with Flex and Rails 3 Installation: What You Need to Get Running 3 The Structure of a Flex and Rails Application 6 The Example Code 9 Compiling MXML 9 Running the Rails Server 9 Summary 9   Chapter 2: Passing Data with XML 11 XML in Rails 11 XML in Flex 14 Getting XML to Flex 17 Sending XML to Rails 19 Mapping Data Types 21 Error Handling 25 Summary 28   Chapter 3: Flex with RESTful Services 29 Creating the Stock Portfolio Rails Application 29 Accessing Our RESTful Application with Flex 39 Summary 48   Chapter 4: Using Fluint to Test a Flex with Rails Application 49 Using Fluint to Write Your Flex Unit Tests 50 The Basics of Testing a Flex Application 51 Testing a Cairngorm-Based Application 59 Using Fixtures 79 Summary 83   Chapter 5: Passing Data with AMF 85 What Is AMF? 85 Benefits of AMF 86 RubyAMF 87 A Simple RubyAMF Example 95 A RESTful RubyAMF Integration 101 Summary 103   Chapter 6: Debugging 105 Logging 106 Debuggers 110 Command Line Debuggers 117 Debugging Communication 127 Summary 129   Chapter 7: Data Visualization 131 Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) 133 Advanced DataGrid 144 Charting 147 Summary 152   Chapter 8: Flex MVC Frameworks 153 What Do We Mean by a Framework? 153 Roll Your Own 154 Cairngorm at a High Level 154 PureMVC at a High Level 159 Stuff 163 Summary 182   Chapter 9: Performance and Optimization 185 Flex Performance 185 Rails Performance 206 Summary 211   PART II: Cookbook Recipes   Chapter 10: Source Control Flex and Rails Projects 215 Goal 215 Solution 215 Ignoring Files in Subversion 215 Git 217 Discussion 218 Summary 219   Chapter 11: Building Flex with Rake 221 Goal 221 Solution 221 Rake Is Your Friend 221 The Rakefile 222 Summary 225   Chapter 12: Deploying Flex and Rails Applications 227 Goal 227 Solution 227 Capistrano 227 Deploying with Capistrano 228 Summary 232   Chapter 13: Read the Source! 233 Goal 233 Solution 233 The Beauty of Open Source 233 The Rails Source 235 Flex Source 238 Generated Flex Source 240 Summary 243   Chapter 14: Using Observers to Clean Up Code 245 Goal 245 Solution 245 BindingUtils and ChangeWatchers in Flex 245 Taking Action on ActiveRecord Lifecycle Events 248 Summary 250   Chapter 15: Authenticating 251 Goal 251 Solution 251 Authenticating Users 251 Installing restful_authentication 251 Summary 257   Chapter 16: Reusing Commands with Prana Sequences 259 Goal 259 Solution 259 Sequences 259 Prana’s EventSequence 261 Summary 265   Chapter 17: Hierarchical Data with RubyAMF 267 Goal 267 Solution 267 Nested Sets 267 Summary 273   Chapter 18: Advanced Data Grid and Awesome Nested Set 275 Goal 275 Solution 275 Overview 275 Create the Rails Application and Database 275 Creating a Script to Load the Data 276 Flex Application 279 Adding CRUD 282 Summary 287   Chapter 19: Runtime Flex Configuration with Prana 289 Goal 289 Solution 289 IoC, Eh? 289 Summary 293   Chapter 20: Server Push with Juggernaut 295 Goal 295 Solution 295 Push Technology 295 Juggernaut 295 Creating the Rails Messaging Application 297 Creating the Flex Messaging Client Application 299 Summary 301   Chapter 21: Communicating between Flex and JavaScript 303 Goal 303 Solution 303 Communication between Flex and JavaScript 303 Security 303 Building the Samples 304 ExternalInterface 304 SWFObject and Prototype 305 ExternalInterface in Action 305 Flex-Ajax Bridge in Action 309 Summary 311   Chapter 22: File Upload 313 Goal 313 Solution 313 File Upload 313 Creating the Rails Application and Installing attachment_fu 315 Using Flex’s FileReference Class to Upload One or Several Files 316 Using Flex URLLoader Class to Upload a PNG File 318 Summary 320   Index 321

About the Author :
Tony Hillerson is a Software Architect for EffectiveUI. He graduated from Ambassador University with a BA in MIS. On any given day, he may be working with Flex, Java, Rails, Maven, Ant, Ruby, Rake, Capistrano, or shell scripts. Tony maintains RubyAMF, a Rails plug-in that allows Flex applications to pass AMF messages to and from Rails. Tony has been a speaker at 360|Flex, Adobe MAX, and RailsConf, as well as local user groups. In his nonexistent free time, Tony enjoys playing the bass, playing World of Warcraft, making electronic music, brewing beer, learning Latin, and studying philosophy. Tony lives outside Denver, Colorado with his wife and son, Titus. Daniel Wanja, a native of Switzerland, currently lives in Denver, Colorado. He has lived in Denver for more than six years with his wife and three children, ages 5, 3, and 5 months. Daniel is a dynamic, skilled enterprise software architect and developer with over 20 years’ experience. He has worked in the banking, insurance, and high-tech industries around the world delivering mission-critical software. Daniel is president and part owner of two Flex and Ruby on Rails consulting agencies, Nouvelles Solutions, Inc., in Denver, http://n-so.com, and ProDesign Sarl in Geneva, Switzerland, http://prodesign.ch. Daniel started the http://onrails.org blog on Ruby on Rails and related matters in 2005.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780321618153
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 3 and Rails 2
  • ISBN-10: 0321618157
  • Publisher Date: 23 Dec 2008
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 360


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