Gaurav

Using Flex with Ruby on Rails

This is the second blog post in a series of three posts comparing Flex with Silverlight. In my previous post I demonstrated how to integrate a scaffolded Rails application with Silverlight. Here I will be showing the same with Flex. The steps needed to create the Rails application are also mentioned here.

 

Creating a new Flex project:

Open Flex builder and create a new Flex project.

Leave all the options to default and click Finish. A blank project is now created for you.

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Using Silverlight with Ruby on Rails

In this post I will be showing a really simple example of creating a Silverlight frontend for a Rails backend. This is what I think will be a three part series comparing Silverlight with Flex.

The steps will be:

1. Creating a Rails application.
2. Creating a frontend for it in silverlight.
3. Creating a frontend for it in Flex.
4. Comparing the approaches taken in both the frontends.

I will try to keep changes in the backend Rails application to a minimum.

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