Flexible Rails

I think it's pretty clear that DHH isn't sold on the combination of Flex and Rails....

Oh well, despite his best efforts, I am still convinced that the Flex + Rails combination is the best one for rich Internet applications. In case my comment goes away from the thread on that blog post, here was my initial reaction. I'll blog more about this later:

Hi David,

While you are a much better coder and a lot richer than I am, you are 100% wrong about rich Internet applications.

This is even more misguided than your "You're not on a fucking plane" post.

This debate is not "Rails vs. rich Internet applications", by the way. I am a proponent of using Rails and Flex together.

See the MIT licensed code samples from my book Flexible Rails for an example of how Flex and Rails can be used together. (Yes, this is blatant and shameless self-promotion, but it's extremely relevant to this discussion so I'll mention it anyway: I am trying to show the world how YOUR framework can be a key part of the next generation of rich Internet applications--applications which go way beyond the amazing tricks that gurus like yourselves and Thomas Fuchs have been able to do with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

If someone like me can put together a decent, fairly well-designed application with hardly any code (or time or funding), imagine what someone with your (and your colleagues') talents and resources could do with the technology! I bet it would blow away what you have done so far, which is already very impressive and successful...

Best regards,
Peter Armstrong