PureMVC AS3 / Flex / Rails Demo - Index Cards

This demo illustrates the use of PureMVC with Rails to create a unique conceptual mapper / study aid application.

Techniques Illustrated

• Interacting with a Ruby service
• Data stored in MySQL database

Discussion

From a user experience perspective, the application's metaphor is very simple: you use index cards to help you study.

On one side of the index card, you write the name of a concept that you wish to learn, and on the back you write a definition and/or description of that concept.

Of course, you’ll have a separate set of index cards for each subject that you study, and within each subject you will further divide your index cards based on topics or categories.

You put all of the cards for each topic or category in a rubber band to keep your cards from becoming disorganized. For example, if the subject you’re studying is elementary statistics, you might have one rubber band to hold cards with descriptive analysis concepts, another rubber band for probability, and so on.