I had the pleasure of presenting to the Rails conf audience this morning about “Building RIA’s with Flex”. I wasn’t sure what to expect going in, I was kinda worried it would just be me and 3 guys who were in there to sit and check email :)

However I received a full room and had lots of good questions. I spent a good amount of time in the hall working on continued discussions.

For those of you who came to the presentation I wanted to make sure you got links to the files I used. They are all available in my public svn repo. I have a redmine site that I will update with instructions and documentation when I get back from vacation. But for those who just have to have it now, please visit :

HTTPService Demo: http://svn.simb.net/public/as3ActiveResource/branches/demo/

This actually includes 2 secret gems. The first is a delegate file I wrote to simplify making http calls against your RESTful Rails application. The other gem is actually the code for a framework I will be releasing at the end of the month. The demo’s dont use the framework but I needed one of the classes in the framework so its here for the taking.

Flex WEBorb Example:
http://svn.simb.net/public/flexwo/trunk/

Flex RubyAMF Example:
http://svn.simb.net/public/flexramf/trunk/

In all three of these examples the flex code is in /app/flex and the binaries get published to /public/flex/. I think I set them all up using SQLite3 so you should just need to run `rake db:migrate` to get things set up.

If you have any questions please feel free to comment or email me at simeon at simb dot net. I love sharing these tools and am happy to answer questions. Look for lots of code and blog posts about these topics at the end of October (after vacation and another Conference).