> On this line, would people be interested in a talk on using Flex and Rails
> together?


Yep!


> We've been doing it for a year and a half and have a variety of
> experiences,
> some more interesting than others... All in all it's a pretty neat way to
> develop fast and pretty apps. The only downside being the nagging feeling
> of
> evilness involved with using the Flash runtime.


Well, it's definitely evil... :p


> Could show some of the different gateway mechanisms we've tried (e.g. JSON,
> to_xml, hand-crufted XML (and yes it's crufy how we do it), RubyAMF, WebORB
> for Rails).
>
> Perhaps the peeps would be interested to see some of the MVC frameworks
> available for Flex that we've tried to use to make Flex as fun as Rails? At
> the moment we're going with a pretty neat event-based one called Mate. A
> lot
> neater and more flexible than the traditional frameworks such as Cairngorm
> and PureMVC. Mate allows dependency injection a little like you do from the
> controller to the view in Rails, but has the advantage of using the Flex
> data binding mechanism, which means changes can be propagated immediately
> to
> views. (This is getting away from the Rails side though.)


Do it!

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