Framework
The goal of the Ruboss Framework is to automate much of the plumbing necessary to use Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR with Ruby on Rails. The Ruboss Framework brings the design principles and productivity of Rails to Flex development, and makes integration with RESTful Rails controllers as simple as possible.
The framework is pretty new, but if you’re feeling adventurous, please see the following links:
- wiki: http://github.com/ruboss/ruboss_framework/wikis
- “hello world” tutorial: http://github.com/ruboss/ruboss_rails_integration/wikis
- source code: http://github.com/ruboss
- Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/ruboss-framework
The documentation is very thin at the moment, but there’s more coming in the very near future.
Our ambition is to bring a RESTful, Rails-inspired approach to both Adobe Flex and AIR development. Obviously, this includes integrating with RESTful Rails controllers, with both XML over HTTP or AMF. You will also be able to use the local AIR database with virtually no changes to the code base.
Longer term plans may include adapters for Merb or even Amazon SimpleDB, etc — basically, anything that has a RESTful API that we need to talk to from a Ruboss-using Flex application. (For example, hooking up Merb as a Rails alternative should be very straightforward.)
We are using it on projects of varying complexity and have been very happy with the productivity improvements. But since we are the framework authors, this is to be expected.
Please see the Ruboss Framework Home Page on Google Code for more details.