Peter Armstrong
Rails on AIR
This presentation focuses on the why and how of using Adobe AIR, Flex 3 and Ruby on Rails 2 together, specifically focusing on HTTPService, XML, REST and RubyAMF. There will be a short slide presentation followed by an extensive code walkthrough and demo of a Flex 3 AIR application which is powered by Rails on the server. AIR-specific topics such as synchronizing client and server databases (and implications for how to use ActiveRecord) will hopefully be covered, time permitting.
About Peter
Peter Armstrong is the author of the upcoming Manning book Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2, which was previously a bestselling PDF-only book on Lulu with a sales rank of #73 all-time. Peter has been developing rich client applications for over 7 years. He has worked with Flex full-time since July 2004 (since Flex 1.0), including working from July 2004 to October 2007 for a Silicon Valley mortgage industry startup and being part of the team that won the 2006 Adobe MAX Award for RIA/Web Development. Before that, he was a Java Swing developer for over 4 years for a Silicon Valley BPM startup. On the Rails side, Peter has been tracking Ruby on Rails since mid-2005 (since before Rails 1.0) and is the organizer of The Vancouver Ruby/Rails Meetup group. Peter is also a frequent speaker on using Flex and Rails together, including presentations at The Vancouver Flash/Flex Meetup, a RailsConf 2007 BOF, The Vancouver RIA Developer Camp and Rails to Italy in Pisa. Peter lives in the Vancouver, BC area and works as an independent consultant doing Flex, AIR and Rails development, training and workshops through his company Ruboss Technology Corporation.
