We all know that Flex provides an amazing framework for building stateful client side applications. However to make these applications truely powerful they need to be able to communicate with our applications that reside in the web. There are many ways to facilitate this communication, but the one we are going to focus on is connection to RESTful Web services. Representational State Transfer – REST is the fundamental concept that the web is built on. We have the concept of a url which is a string that uniquely identifies some content. Although this concept has always been the underpinning of web communication, only a few of the methods to facilitate communication have ever become popular. As web developers we are familiar with POST and GET as methods of communicating with a web server. However what may developers dont realize is that there are several other verbs we can utilize in interacting with our web services. REST uses the verbs PUT, POST, DELETE, GET to signify that action that should be acted upon our URI. RESTful web services are such a simple concept but are also very powerful.

In this presentation we will look at creating a set of RESTful web services using the Ruby on Rails framework and the connecting to those resource from Flex.

- Simeon Bateman (excerpt from blog post)

NOTE: This will be a remote presentation given over Adobe Connect. If you’d like to participate with questions/comments during this presentation, please bring a laptop and an ethernet cable so you may do so. Wireless internet is currently not available, sorry.