First thing: The tutorial was certainly geared for people with an interest in Flash or Flex.
The Rails side was minimal at best: “Here’s some rails source, get it running then open Flex Builder”. Okay, no problem. Managed to get the project converted to Postgres (the DBRMS I have on my Mac) and played with the scaffolded HTML interface.
I kept getting NullPointerExceptions when I attempted the most basic tasks within the Flex Builder IDE. After a while I gave up and realised that it was only Flex markup (I hesitate to call Flex code since it appears to be mostly XML markup!) being written. I have no interest in Flex or being a Flex developer. I’m happy with Ruby and Rails. I came to the tutorial hoping to get some inight into integration problems we’ve had at work. Unfortunately that didn’t happen except for at the very end (and our project is far beyond the point where we could have implemented it).
I suppose the lecture wasn’t bad for people who came into it with different expectations. I just expected something other than what it was.
