Foreword
It was early in 2006 when I was discussing my fanaticism for the emerging framework Ruby On Rails down at the pub with friends. I mentioned to Mike Jones, a career Flash developer, that I thought Ruby On Rails would be great for integrating with his new favorite plaything, the Adobe Flex 2 beta. Here were two technologies born of the desire to make cool things easier to build. It was a match made in heaven, and I knew someone would do it soon.
In April and May of that year, I wrote a two-part tutorial on my blog liverail.net and also delivered a presentation at the London Flash Platform User Group, developing a RIA CRUD interface in Flex with a Ruby On Rails backend.
This was only the start of a wave of people marrying the two technologies ...
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