RestfulX “The RESTful Way to develop Adobe Flex and AIR applications”

RestfulX“The RESTful Way to develop

Adobe Flex and AIR applications”or

“Flex on Rails”

Peter [email protected] www.ruboss.com

twitter: @peterarmstrong

why?

Flex + Rails, before RestfulX

Flex + Rails + AIR, before RestfulX

http://manning.com/armstrong

What arewe doing80%

of the time?

RESTful CRUD

Flex + Rails, with RestfulX

Flex + Rails + AIR, with RestfulX

RestfulXFeatures!

http://restfulx.github.com/http://groups.google.com/group/restfulx-framework/

Ruboss FrameworkRuboss Company Project (Dima lead)Dima was Ruboss CTO© RubossGPL v3 & Commercial License

RestfulX Framework(“RESTful X” / “REST Flex”)Community Project© Dima Berastauand ContributorsMIT License

2008

2009

shocking news: you can’t sell verymany framework licenses in 2008!

RestfulX History

RestfulX, Ruboss and Dima Today

= Peter Armstrong +Scott Patten

Dima is now doing freelance RestfulX development and is building a time tracking product using RestfulX.

Peter and Dima are writing a bookFlex Development with RestfulX

and will be publishing it on Sopobo.

Ruboss is doing RestfulX consulting

and development and is working on

Sopobo.com, a site to self-publish PDF

books. We’re building it in Rails, Flex and RestfulX. Scott’s S3 book is on it today.

DEMO

0. If you have run this before, delete a pomodo.db database from home directory.

1. Create the Rails app, install RestfulX and create the Flex project:$ sudo gem install restfulx$ rails -d mysql pomodo$ cd pomodo

2. Edit config/environment.rb and add: config.gem "restfulx"

3. Run rx_config with the distributed option:$ ./script/generate rx_config --distributed

4. Create your data model:$ emacs db/model.yml

5. Generate the app, recreate the database and run your server:$ ./script/generate rx_yaml_scaffold$ rake db:refresh$ ./script/server

6. Import the project into Flex Builder and compile the Flex code.

7. Go to http://localhost:3000.

8. Convert the app to AIR:a) Stop your server.b) Delete the project in Flex Builder. (Don't delete contents.)c) ./script/generate rx_config -a --distributedd) Import the pomodo project into Flex Builder again.e) [WORKAROUND] Fix the routes, which got hosed by rx_config -a --distributed: map.resources :locations map.resources :notes map.resources :tasks map.resources :projects map.resources :users

9. Test online/offline:a) Start your server.b) Rebuild and run the AIR app. Note that it's empty.c) Start your server. Note that online detection works. Do a pull.d) Create tasks, projects, etc.e) Do a push.

project: - name: string - notes: text - start_date: date - end_date: date - completed: boolean - belongs_to: [user] - has_many: [tasks]

location: - name: string - notes: text - belongs_to: [user] - has_many: [tasks]

task: - name: string - notes: text - start_time: datetime - end_time: datetime - completed: boolean - next_action: boolean - belongs_to: [project, location, user]

note: - content: text - belongs_to: [user]

user: - login: string - first_name: string - last_name: string - email: string - has_many: [tasks, projects, locations] - has_one: [note]

db/model.yml:

It’sjustthat

easy.

Thanks!

Peter [email protected] www.ruboss.com

twitter: @peterarmstrong