Enterprise Flexible Rails

By: Peter Armstrong, Dima Berastau
ISBN: 1933988738
MEAP Release: May 2008; Softbound print: January 2009 (est.) | 350 pages

Overview

Enterprise Flexible Rails shows you how to easily build scalable rich Internet applications (RIAs) using Flex 3 and Rails 2 with the Ruboss Framework, BlazeDS, JRuby and AIR. In it, you'll learn to build RESTful CRUD-based Flex RIAs using open source tools and cutting-edge techniques. More than anything else, though, Enterprise Flexible Rails is about staying a step ahead of the curve.

This book is for intermediate-level developers with a good basic knowledge of Flex and Rails. The book concentrates on using Flex, Rails, and AIR together with both standard Ruby and JRuby. It also introduces a framework--the Ruboss Framework--which can make the typical Flex + Rails development easier.

About the Author

Peter Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Ruboss Technology Corporation, a Vancouver, BC area company focusing on Adobe Flex and Ruby on Rails development and consulting. He is the co-creator of the Ruboss Framework, the RESTful way to develop Flex and AIR applications that easily integrate with Ruby on Rails. Peter is also the author of the Manning book Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2. He was a key part of the team that won the 2006 Adobe MAX Award for RIA/Web Development, the organizer of the Vancouver Ruby/Rails Meetup group, and is a frequent speaker on using Flex and Rails together.

Dima Berastau is the co-founder and CTO of Ruboss Technology Corporation, and is the co-creator of the Ruboss Framework. Prior to Ruboss, Dima worked with the OLAP Group at Business Objects/SAP in Vancouver, BC and the Enterprise Software Group at RIM in Waterloo, Ontario developing enterprise-scale web applications. Dima holds a Master of Software Systems degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom.