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= RubyAMF: Flash and Flex Remoting for Ruby on Rails
RubyAMF is an open source flash remoting gateway for Ruby on Rails.
== Installation
$ ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/victorcoder/rubyamf_plugin.git
Rails 3:
$ rails plugin install git://github.com/victorcoder/rubyamf_plugin.git
Confirm correct installation and routing by browsing to:
http://localhost:[port]/rubyamf/gateway
You will see the rubyamf logo on a black background.
== Configuration
Please read the documentation in rubyamf_config.rb. That file gets installed to config/rubyamf_config.rb when you use the rails installer.
== Parameter mappings
Here's how parameter mappings behave by default:
Every remoting parameter is available in the order it came - in the "params" hash. So if you sent over 2 parameters in your remoting call. You could access them like: params[0], and params[1].
You can toggle this behavior, RubyAMF has a property called "rubyamf_params". This is useful if you don't want every parameter coming into the "params" hash. Set "ParameterMappings.always_add_to_params" to false. Once set to false - parameters by index will only be put into "rubyamf_params" and not "params"
Here's what happens when you go beyond that and setup some custom ParameterMappings:
How do I get data deeper in the object than just referencing the index it came in?
Because RubyAMF turns dynamic objects into hashes, you can use hash accessor like logic to get deeper into a parameter. Here's a quick EX:
ParameterMappings.register({:controller => :MyController, :action => :myaction, :params => {:myproperty => "[0]['firstname']" }})
== Supported types
RubyAMF Supports AMF0, AMF3, and RemoteObject
== AMF Type conversions
Flash 2 RubyAMF:
undefined -> nil null -> nil false -> false true -> true Number -> Fixnum int -> Integer String -> String XML -> String (cast in your service) Array -> Array MixexArray? -> Hash Object -> Hash Custom Class -> Ruby Class RubyAMF 2 Flash:
nil -> null false -> false true -> true Numeric -> Number String -> String BeautifulSoup? -> XML REXML::Doc -> xml Array -> Array Hash -> Object Ruby Class -> Custom Class
== Generators
RubyAMF Code Generators and Helper Scripts
=== Introduction
RubyAMF currently has two generators
RubyAMF only scaffold generator Console printing ClassMapping? helper generator
Note: Currently the generators have not been upgraded to Rails 3 generators.
=== Details
$ script/generate rubyamf_scaffold <model> <attributes>
will produce a model, fixtures, tests, and a RubyAMF specific controller with actions that work only with incoming :amf formats.
$ script/generate rubyamf_mappings
will print class mapping entries for each model in app/models and below to the command line. This is designed to help easily add new class mappings to the rubyamf_config.rb configuration file.
== Credits
(c) aaron smith http://www.rubyamf.org