March 2009 Reviews

Flex and Rails: Two Useful Books

March 23, 2009

Flexible Rails


Flex on Rails

  • Authors: Tony Hillerson and Daniel Wanja
  • ISBN-10: 0321574303
  • ISBN-13: 9780321574305
  • Reviewer (both books): Edwin W. Meyer

You’re using Ruby on Rails for rapid web application development, and you’re struggling to get JavaScript to display properly on different browsers. Surely there must be something for dynamic client side presentations that matches the ease of Rails development. Well, there is, and even better, it integrates nicely with Rails. It’s called Flex, and it is a part of the now ubiquitous Adobe Flash player.