In the world of Adobe technologies, most of us that work with Flex and the Action Message Format (AMF) typically look to LiveCycle DS or Blaze DS as our server technologies of choice. AMF, however, is is a a message format open-sourced by Adobe with a multitude of server implementations for an assorted set of languages. In this session, myself and Jake Swanner, will be showing you one of those implementations in a Ruby flavor called RubyAMF. RubyAMF is a plugin for the Rails framework which allows you to easily expose models from your application for RPC calls using AMF. We’ve created a simple Flex application, which works with the Yelp web services, and uses a Rails controller as an endpoint to recieve XML, JSON, and AMF messages containing restaurant data. We will show our example application working with each of these message formats in our presentation. Additionally, I will give a brief overview of the Flex technology stack to give an idea of how all the pieces fit together. If you’re new to Flex and AMF, or just interested in learning about something new, we hope you can make it out to the meeting.

Fore more details, check out the Adogo and ORUG post on the meeting. See you there.