Yep you heard right, Free! Well restricted in the free versions but not much. With the release of Flex 2 came the need for AMF3 compatable solutions. Recently I have been hunting round for one that allowed me to use Ruby on rails along with AMF. There are a few opensource options underway but by the looks of it the guys at WebOrb are well underway. They alreay have versions in .NET and Java so its safe to say they know what they are doing. I got a comment posted one of my other blog entries and I really cant believe I hadnt heard of this sooner. I realise these guys used to be FlashOrb but its all new and shinny.

"Free open-source implementation of Flash Remoting in Ruby."
"Can be deployed into any Rails-enabled application to expose it to Flash Remoting and Flex clients."
"Provides full implementation of Flash Remoting and Flex Data Services (AMF0 and AMF3, Data Management)"

If you head over to http://www.themidnightcoders.com/index.htm  and check it out, they say that the PHP and the ROR version is coming Q3 06 (never really liked that whole quarter thing but I spose it means there isnt a solid date). I cant wait though, seeing how easy and fast ROR is along with AMF and some flex (my goodness I sound like a marketing person lol) I will be making some cool stuff…..quickly.

Best of all the same packages that provide the AMF are specifically designed to intergrate with AJAX calls. So you get the best of all the Web 2.0 terms to sell your client on buying the full version. The have plenty of demoslive on their server. Showing that pretty much the same methods can be accessed via both AMF and ajax calls.

So put this one in your "to keep an eye on" box and hold your breath.