RadRace Weapons

Flex ↔ Rails

Ernest Micklei @ QNH.nl

“Fighting Rules”

• Teams of 2 developers must create a Web Application on site

• Anything goes– Hardware, Software, Books,

Samples

• But – Mission is kept secret– No Internet access

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“Guns and Ammo”

• Tools– IDE-s, Repository, Rake,

…

• Frameworks on top of– Ruby, Rails, AS3, Flex

• Machinery– 22” monitors– 3 laptops, hubs,

keyboards, cables, HD, stickies, printer, ….

* images are trademarked by their respective owners

RestWorks

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Face Fear

• Internationalization• Session

management• X-layer Validations• Browser History• Report generation• Database import• XML Transformation• RSS• Help• Optimistic locking• Email

• Autorisation• Exception handling• Logging• Password

encryption• Look & Feel

• comply to the “ilities”– Usability– Maintainability– Testability– Extendability

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“Secret Weapon”

• REST is all about Resource Access (CRUD)

• IMHO Resource Manipulation is “tricked”

=> Command + Reply

• RestWorks expirement– handle commands -> replies– handle exceptions -> restfaults– generate Flex code

• Services, Models, Views, Grids, Windows, Tests

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Command and ConquerTM

* trademark of Electronic Arts Inc.

Flex

anOrderService.calculate(order_id,…)

<command name=“calculate”> <parameter name=“order_id” value=“42” /></command>

Rails

class OrderController < ApplicationController

def calculate(order_id) # fetch the order and compute totals Reply.status(“calculated”, total) end

<reply status=“calculated”> <result>169.58</result></reply>

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Demo

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until properly open-sourceddownload Rails plugin and Flex libraries from:

http://s3browse.com/explore/public.philemonworks.com

send comments to:

ernest.micklei @ qnh.nl

Questions?