Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Flexible Railsis a unique, application-based guide for using
php?name=Ruby" onclick="tagshow(event)" class="t_tag">Ruby on Rails 2 andAdobe
Flex 3 to build rich Internet applications (RIAs). It is not anexhaustive Ruby on Rails or Flex reference. Instead, it is an extensivetutorial in which the reader builds multiple iterations of aninteresting RIA using Flex and Rails together. Author PeterArmstrong walks readers through eleven iterations in which the sampleapplication--pomodo--is variously built, refactored, debugged, sliced,diced and otherwise explored from every conceivable angle with respectto Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex. The book unfolds both the applicationand the Flex-on-Rails approach side-by-side.
About the Author
Peter Armstrong is aprofessional developer who has been working with Flex full-time sinceJuly 2004 and Ruby on Rails since mid-2005--that's before Rails 1.0.His background includes five years of working with
Java Swing and abrief stint with PHP during the dotcom bubble in 2000.
