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[David James]

I'm on the lookout for user groups about Flex in the DC area. I hope
this is the right place.

I come from a Ruby (and Rails) background; I'm really new to Flex. So
far there are many things to like about Flex. But I have some
questions:
* What are some frameworks that I should consider for programming in
Flex?
* People do automated testing in Flex, right? What tools do you use
for this?
* I'm looking to find some examples of good, modular Flex code. Any
recommendations of where to look?

Thanks,
David

[kbr...@aboutweb.com]

We set this group up, but never got around to using it. I'm the user
group manager for the Capital Area Flex User Group. http://www.dc-flex.org/

I've answered your questions below.

On Aug 27, 7:23 pm, David James <davidj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm on the lookout for user groups about Flex in the DC area.  I hope
> this is the right place.
>
> I come from a Ruby (and Rails) background; I'm really new to Flex.  So
> far there are many things to like about Flex.  But I have some
> questions:
> * What are some frameworks that I should consider for programming in
> Flex?

Cairngorm, Most widely used, but I find it a bit cumbersome.
PureMVC, A lot of people seem to like this one and my company has used
it on several projects.
Someone is presenting on MATE which is another Flex framework at the
CAPFUG meeting next wednesday.
No framework. Depending on how large your project is you can just use
a good methodology without a framework.

> * People do automated testing in Flex, right?  What tools do you use
> for this?

Use can use FlexUnit for Unit testing. There are Ant tags you can use
to run your unit tests and build and deploy Flex.
For higher level testing Mercury Interactive supports Flex. There may
be additional tools that support Flex that I haven't used.

> * I'm looking to find some examples of good, modular Flex code.  Any
> recommendations of where to look?

You can look at some of the Adobe sample applications. There are also
several blogs around.

>
> Thanks,
> David