This tutorial is part 3 of a tutorial about Flex, Ruby on Rails and WebORB. This is the full List:
—Tutorial Flex on Rails part 1: Introduction
—Tutorial Flex on Rails part 2: Install Ruby on Rails
—Tutorial Flex on Rails part 3: Install WebORB
—Tutorial Flex on Rails part 4: Building a login system
What is WebORB?
WebORB for Rails supplying a connection between Ruby on Rails and Flex (or Flash). WebORB for Rails creates services that can be called by Flex (or Flash). WebORB can be installed as a plugin in every Rails application. The services can be called trough using the Flex Data Services.
Installing the WebORB plugin
* Open the console and go to your ruby folder. (Instant Rails: Right mouse button on the I in the right bottom of your taskbar > Rails Application > Open Ruby Console Window)
* Create a rails project:
“>rails mijnapplicationâ€
*If the project is created we are going to the project directory:
“>cd mijnapplicationâ€
*Install the WebORB plugin
“>ruby script/plugin install http://themidnightcoders.net:8089/svn/weborb''
*Start your webserver:
“>ruby script/serverâ€
Testing WebORB
* Open your webbrowser
* Type: http://localhost:3000/examples/example.html a Flex application will be opened
* Click the button “Get Computer Info”, if everything is going alright the field will be filled.
Links
Getting Started with WebORB for Ruby on Rails
Midnight Coders
Thank you for this tutorial –
Something awkward is happening with testing the WebOrb, when I go to my localhost:3000 I am able to see the Welcome Aboard home. But when I go to localhost:3000/examples/example.html – I get a routing error.
“Recognition failed for “examples/example/html” .
On the other hand, when I run 127.0.0.1:3001 It goes straight to the pre-given example of MyCookBook, where I can add and edit the db. The same happens with 127.0.0.1:3002 for the typo account signup (these come pre-built with InstantRails: http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Getting_Started)
n.b. I am bypassing the Apache with Mongrel (in Manage Rails Application).
please help on how I can get around this [127.0.0.1 so I can use with Flex.
Thanks 🙂
You have to stop the server for MyCookBook. I think you have a console window open for that application. To start another server you have to do this step again:
“>cd myapplicationâ€
*Start your webserver:
“>ruby script/serverâ€
After you give a ENTER you get a port number back (127.0.0.1:3001 or 127.0.0.1:3003 for example).
“Recognition failed for “examples/example/htmlâ€
Ruby is translating this to something he can understand. Normally you have an URL like this in ruby:
127.0.0.1:3001/user/view/1
Thanks for the tutorial. Everything works up to the point when I click on the button and I get a “Send Failed” error. I am very new at this so please forgive me if this is a newbie mistake.
I am running Windows XP and IIS is running. Thanks.
I think you missed a step. Try to install WebORB again. Make sure you start the ruby server.
It can go wrong at many points so it is hard for me to give a clear answer.
Hello Arno:
I see my mistake. I used RoR 2.0 instead of RoR 1.4. So, I installed InstantRails 1.4 and reinstalled WebORB. Now it works.
So, my next question is how to update this to RoR 2.0? Thanks.
Well we wrote this almost 1,5 years ago and I translated it to english a 4 months ago. At this moment i’m not working with Ruby anymore so honestly I have no clue how to update.
After some searching I found this:
http://www.themidnightcoders.com/doc30/
and click on “Flex Integration”. That is a more up to date tutorial. I hope it is useful for you
i’m having the same problem (“send failed”) on rails 2.0 it sucks
weborb sucks huge. it just doesn’t work.
Did you check out the documentation of Weborb like I mentioned above? It should work with rails 2.0