This is inaccurate. I got my application to maintain multiple sessions with my rails server at once. You simply need to save your session id (s) upon login to your server, and then you pass them back in using the as3httpclientlib add header option.

You use something like this on the Flex side:
var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new Get();
request.addHeader(“Cookie”, “_application_session_id=” + {session_id});
var uri:URI = new URI(http://rails_server_address);
client.request(uri,request);

And on the Rails side, you need to make sure that your _application_session_id matches up with what you’re using on the flex side. You do this by putting a line in your application.rb as such:

session :session_key => ‘_application_session_id’

I did this on a rails 1.2.6 server, but I’m guessing there’s probably a similar way to do it with rails 2 as well because you have multiple options on how to manage sessions on it.

Digvijay

Also, yeah, we should check out Ruboss, though I’m unsure if they’ve found a way to capture response headers. Scott?

If you’re looking for RESTful Flex frameworks, you might want to check out Ruboss (http://ruboss.com). We’ve done a lot of work making it integrate nicely with Rails and the RESTful interface.

Check out the tutorial, which gets a Ruboss Flex/Rails app up and running in just a few minutes: http://wiki.github.com/ruboss/ruboss4ruby/ruboss-framework-and-rails-21

Scott