Howdy- I believe the very smart guys that comprise LessonNine Ghmb (of babbel fame) started the project using Flex and Rails.
I do not know if they are still using said .. >From Wikipedia: An Adobe Flex Application Highly interactive, more than a website, Babbel is a full Web-software-powered environment for foreign language learning built with Adobe Flex. The founders found Adobe Flash to be the best technology available for playing sounds and graphic effects[8]. Four developers have been working on Babbel - two of them focusing on the Flex client and two developing the Ruby On Rails based backend running on Amazon EC2 instances. Development time to the first public version in January 2008 was about 8 months.[1]. According to Thomas Holl, the CTO, The server consists of 12K lines of Ruby code, the Flex client is about 50K LOC (including 7K lines of generated integration code). "We're following an iterative development process - and found out that a length of one week seems to work best for us. Besides that, we're using best practice tools and processes, e.g. Subversion for version control, Trac for defect tracking/documentation/communication, automated builds/deployment via Ant/Capistrano, etc.[9] The website has currently more than 700,000 users worldwide. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Chris Downey <cdowney@...> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm just wondering if there is anybody who is actively working on a project > or knows of projects where Flex and Rails are used together. Looking > online, I see a burst of blogs between 2007-2009 but then it quickly > fizzles. Any thoughts about this? Theoretically, it seems to be an > interesting and useful fit, but when I start considering the details of > making it work... I'm no longer so sure. > > Thanks, > > > Chris >
