Recently, I read a blog post on yewknee.com mentioning a Flash framework called Gaia, which is based on the idea of scaffolding made popular by Ruby on Rails. Here is what Gaia is all about:

Gaia is targeted at anyone who develops Flash sites. It provides solutions to the challenges and repeated tasks we all face with front-end Flash site development, such as navigation, transitions, preloading, asset management, site structure, deep linking and SEO. It provides speed and flexibility in your workflow and a simple API that gives you access to its powerful features.

Gaia’s revolutionary scaffolding engine generates all your Flash files and classes for you and gets you up and running with a fully functional site in less than 10 minutes without writing a single line of Actionscript!

Gaia enables you to develop feature-rich websites with significantly less code, and comes with built-in best practices including seamless integration with SWFObject and SWFAddress.

Gaia was created by Steven Sacks and you can download and/or read about it here. I’m in the process of building a site using Gaia and will update my opinions as they form. Hopefully, I’ll be vacationing in Maui in the coming weeks due to how much time this is going to save me. Mahalo!

Tags: flash framework, gaia

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