Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Flexstore: Flash, Ajax, Rails
Category: Flash
, JavaScript, Ruby, Showcase
Christophe Coenraets has written a tutorial Flexstore on Rails.
The tutorial takes Flexstore, a traditional shopping cart, and gets it going with Rails on the backend.
The example is interesting in how it shows Flash and Ajax working together. The main catalog is a Flash application on the right hand side, and on the left we have sliders and widgets using the Yahoo! UI library.
How does Rails fit in again? This shows Rails as a web service provider. The application uses XML builders (taken from Groovy XML Markup) to output product information in XML, which Flex then uses.
3.7 rating from 38 votes
Good proof of concept especially with the AJAX/Flex interaction.
Interestingly enough I put a tutorial for intergrating Flex and Rails on my blog on Monday (http://www.liverail.net/articles/2006/04/16/rubyonrails-1-1-and-flex-2-0-pt-1)
Its much lower level showing the Flex MXML code and some of the new REST features in Rails 1.1
I just installed Flex Store!
It’s just great. gotta try it too.
Rocking cool!
I cannot believe this stuff! It’s so amazing. I wonder, how the web will soon change with this tool!
gotta lovin it!
Has anyone taken this further with a checkout script to make it a complete application?
just installed Flex Store!
It’s just great. gotta try it too.
Rocking cool!
Bumping what Chris has said!
Has anyone taken this further with a checkout script to make it a complete application?
Would help a lot of us immensely.
Please share!
This link is broken, anyone know where it went?
I just checked the link that you’ve added in your post. But it seems like it’s broken. Please update it because I’m interested.