WWR - Railsplugin: Weborb

Weborb

Current release: 1.1.3

Release history is available at the bottom of this document and: http://www.themidnightcoders.com/weborb/rubyonrails/releaseHistory.htm

What is WebORB for Rails:

WebORB for Rails is server-side technology enabling connectivity between Flex and Flash Remoting clients and Ruby on Rails applications. WebORB for Rails can be installed as a plugin into any Rails application to expose Ruby classes as remote services. The product provides a complete implementation of the Adobe’s AMF0 and AMF3 messaging protocols and thus supports any Flash Remoting or Flex client.

Getting Started:

Detailed ‘Quick Start’ guide is available at: http://www.themidnightcoders.com/weborb/rubyonrails/gettingstarted.htm

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Change History

1.1.3 – Fixed bug when reading and writing UTF strings that include non-ascii characters – Added support for writing out attributes of ActiveRecord instances that are inlcluded via tha attr_accessor method

1.1.2 – added support writing back xml documents that are returned from remote service methods; these documents must be of time REXML::Document.

1.1.1 – added support for including ‘Reloadable’ in service classes so that changes are reloaded when in development mode.

1.1 – added support for basic security including handling RemoteObject.setCredentials; use the simple WebORB security system by adding the appropriate configuration to the security and acl sections of weborb-config.xml; to use your own authentication system provide a class that implements a “check_credentials( userid, password )” method and add that class to the the security/authenticationHandler section of weborb-config.xml. – added a Log.error call if there is an error during service processing. – removed ‘include REML’ method call from configuration code

1.0.9 – added ability to map ActiveRecord instances to type classes on the client (tagged with [RemoteClass]) – added support for invoking class methods (instead of only object instance methods) – added support for invoking “dynamic” active record class methods via method_missing

1.0.8 – fixed bug in RequestContext class wherein the wrong class-level session variable was being set.

1.0.7 – experimental authentication API (after calling remoteObject.setCredentials on the client the user name and password are available on the server via RequestContext.get_user_name and RequestContext.get_password calls respectively).

1.0.6 – fixed support for Date and DateTime objects

1.0.5 – added support for single table inheritance of active record models

1.0.4 – added support for externalizable client-side objects

1.0.3 – added support for serializing associations of active record models