While at OSCON a couple of weeks ago I interviewed Simeon Bateman about Ruby and Flex. Simeon is a long time Flex developer and has given a few presentations on how to integrate Ruby and Flex. We cover Ruby from a Flex development standpoint and talk about how Flex and Rails can communicate. One of the major projects out there is RubyAMF which lets you talk to a Ruby application using fast, speedy, AMF. We also dive into some of the benefits of Rails when doing Flex development and how using Flex can make any Rails application better by offloading some of the work to the front end.

I apologize for the video quality. We were filming it an informal style and Simeon’s dog wanted to be on camera.

Good Ruby/Flex Resources

• Flex and Ruby for developers
• RubyAMF
• Derek Wischusen on Rails and Flex
• Flexible Rails book