Flexible Rails

Part 1. Getting started

In this part, we’ll do the necessary setup work to get to the fun stuff in the rest of the book. We’ll install everything, do a Flex and Rails version of “Hello World,” and then get user creation and login working in Rails and hook up the Flex UI to it.

This part contains three iterations:

• Iteration 1: “Why are we here? Where are we going?”—This iteration provides the motivation for the book, an understanding of the history of Flex and Rails and how they fit together, and an overview of the book.
• Iteration 2: “Hello World”—This iteration contains three separate sets of instructions (Windows or Mac OS X + Flex Builder 3, Windows + Flex SDK, and Mac OS X + Flex SDK) for installing everything we need and getting “Hello ...