Ruby On Rails :: Implement A Dashboard Using Abobe Flex?
Aug 10, 2009
I'm trying to implement a Dashboard using Abobe Flex which is fed from a Ruby on Rails application. The Dashboard will just display charts and tables which can be fed by JSON, XML etc. feeds.A User will need to login into the Flex frontend before they can view the Dashboard, so I have two main requirements for this to work:
1. A User can login via the Flex frontend, however Flex uses my Ruby on Rails application to perform the authentication
2. Gather data from feeds being provided by Ruby on Rails web application based on the User (id)Is this setup possible with Flex and Ruby on Rails?
i'm trying to figure out how i can handle login protected actions in RoR (Ruby on Rails) with Flex without using weborm or rubyamf remoteobject.I'm in the situation where i have to fill a datagrid with results of an HTTPService request after i log in correctly into my application. Can anyone suggest me the way to accomplish that?
I'm trying to upload a Dynamically generated file from Flex (PNG image) to Ruby on Rails Server back end using the following code (from Flex on Rails book):
I am trying to login in to my Rails app through an adobe flex application that uses Devise but cannot figure out how to map the AMF request to Devise::SessionsController#New. I tried the following
How do I control what parameters are passed in a RemoteObject method? I noticed that when I directly download and run the code from this site, saving an object results in the following parameter set being passed back:
I have a rails app that records a video from the webcam. After the video file is saved on the flex server, I need to create a record on the database calling the create action on my rails app from Flex. How can I achieve this? I need a url with params to be called. I think the authenticity_token is necessary to post data.
I want to implement an application in Flex/Rails in Background as I know these two languages but I'm fairly beginner with Flex and Intermediate-to-expert with Rails. My application will display a calendar like object by which there are say 5-day week or 7-day week or a month (30-days) and in each day there will be some data such as appointments or such. I want users to be able to drag left or right to get more days after or before the displayed week for example and I want the boxes to be filled with proper appointments data.
What is the best way to implmenet this in your opinion, mainly from Flex point of view? Any architectural tips from the Rails side?
I have a webpage based on ruby on rails. For one task I need some more complex user interface which I plan to do with a flex programm. The question is, how I can start the a new window with my flex programm and hand over the right url where the flex app can load its data in XML format...
I'm looking for a way to upload images that were created in my flex app to rails. I've tried to use paperclip, but it don't seem to work. I've got this tutorial here: [URL] The problem is, that they are using a FileReference to browse for files on the clients computer. They call the .upload(...) function and send the data to the upload controller. But I'm using a URLLoader to upload a image, that is modified in my Flex-App. First, here is the code from the tutorial:
We have a Rails 3 app using session-based authentication (modified acts_as_authenticated), and a Flex app that needs to be embedded in an html.erb template. The Flex app needs to access routes that have a before_filter set to check if the user is logged in. When interacting with the HTML site, this causes the user to be redirected to a login page, then sets a Rails session property (tied to a cookie) to record that the user is logged in when making future requests.The Flex app needs to access XML that's generated by Rails (behind the before_filter) and I don't want to force the user to log in twice -- what should I be passing as a flash parameter to the Flex app so that it can present as "already logged in" if that session exists (ie, the user has logged in via the HTML interface)?
I want to upload a file(photo) from Flex to Rails and then send a response back to the server in XML (contains photo URL and ID). I'm sending from my Rails server some XML as follows:[code]it doesn't seem to parse XML properly. I have used similar code before with URLLoader and it worked.
The application is used through Facebook. I click the button and the flash contains the notice while create is being executed, but after that it's empty again. It doesn't survive a redirect.
How can we include (nicely) a swf file in a Rails application?By the way, I tried the swf_fu plugin but it didn't work. When I call my swf file located in the swfs directory, it tells me that the method is not found:
I am a rails noob. I am having a problem conceptualizing how assets work in an authenticated system. All of the tutorials I've seen so far talk about putting your swfs in the public folder and embedding them in your view. However, the swf I'm using is a flex gui that should only be used by users logged-in through restful-authentication. I imagine that putting the gui into the public folder would be defeating the whole purpose of having an authentication system. So what is everybody doing to restrict access to this kind static content?
I am trying to embed a flash file onto the homepage of my Ruby application. The homepage is in /app/view/home, and the flash file is in the projects /public/flash/myflash.swf.When I load the home page, I don't see anything, although the text is bumped below a square of the proper size I defined the file as.The code I am using to try and load the file is
I am thinking that either I am calling the file wrong by using value=/flash/Blox.swf, or that I am storing my flash file in the wrong place period. How can I get my flash file to load?
I am in the process of building a rails/flex application which requires audio to be recorded and then stored in our amazon s3 account. I have found no alternative to using some form of RTMP server for recording audio through flash, but our hosting environment will not allow us to install anything like FMS, Red5, etc.
Is there any existing Ruby/Rails RTMP solution that will allow audio recording? If not, is it possible for Rails to at least intercept the RTMP stream and then I can hope to reference red5's source or something for parsing the data (long shot, I know)?The other alternative I can think of is hosting a red5 server on another host and communicating with our rails app once the saving/uploading is done, which is not preferred.
I´m looking for any kind of information on this subject, kinda hard to find. I´m a ruby programmer and i´m looking for ways to create web apps with RIA, like Adobe Flex.
I mean, the mvc for cairngorm and the one in rails don't overlap their functionalities? I'm not sure I understand the need for cairngorm with the rails backend..
how to use flexpaper for my rails application? it needs swf formats, and our rails wud converted any supported file type to pdf.how to proceed further with converting pdf to swf on the fly and displaying it via the flexpaper app.
I am building a Rails app that would nicely communicate with Flex via sockets. Currently I found only two ways of communication: Simple HttpRequest, RemoteObject. But I need something "multiplayer" style. I need Flex to talk to sockets and Rails app to grab data from those sockets do some job and push something back to a socket so Flex could read it "on the fly".
I'm having an issue integrating flex with ruby on rails. I get this error:
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I believe Rails automatically generate an AuthenticityToken when using "View" components that generates the HTML as I notice in the console AuthenticityToken gets passed with every request. But When I'm using Flex as my client interface instead of HTML generated by view how do I get/generate this AuthenticityToken and store it in Flex.
I'm using Flex 4(beta2) with Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 and using RubyAMF to transfer data back and forth between Flex and server. set up Authlogic on the Rails side for authentication. wasn't sure what's the best method to handle user sessions. I know this is done automatically with Rails by sending session id with cookie which Rails use to authenticate the user.What do you suggest the best way to do this with Flex?I thought of couple of options:1. Manually fetching the cookie from the browser and then figuring our a way to send that to the server with every request I send. 2. Handling sessions expiration and flow on Flex side by manually expiring the session
I'm starting to learn in flex and ruby on rails. I see some projects there is a flex folder under rails_project/app which contains controller, models, views. I think it's not mannually to add these folders to rails project.
