Comments on: ActiveSalesforce connector for Rails http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/02/10/activesalesforce-connector-for-rails/ Authored by Scott Hemmeter of Arrowpointe Corp, this blog is written from the perspective of a Salesforce.com solution provider and contains information on Arrowpointe's AppExchange products as well as tips, findings, sample code, functionality wishes, etc. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:52:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Doug Chasman http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/02/10/activesalesforce-connector-for-rails/#comment-46 Doug Chasman Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:03:31 +0000 http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/?p=76#comment-46 Acting on ToddB's comment above I have changed the description to read: " ActiveSalesforce is a Rails connection adapter that provides direct access to Salesforce.com hosted data and metadata via the ActiveRecord model layer. Objects, fields, and relationships are all auto surfaced as active record attributes and rels." We have been working like mad (this one is outside our normal workday) to get the project to be ready for beta this week - please log bugs for any issues you find! There are currently 2 of us developing on this: myself (senior member of the Salesforce.com Platform team in R&D) and Pete Morelli (senior member of the Salesforce.com API team). our goal is to make Salesforce.com an outstanding backend for developing in Ruby and RoR applications (I am also a customer of this using RoR with ASF in some of my "day job" work around improving parts of Salesforce.com like scontrols, web tabs, and presentation layer integration and templating support in general). Acting on ToddB’s comment above I have changed the description to read: ” ActiveSalesforce is a Rails connection adapter that provides direct access to Salesforce.com hosted data and metadata via the ActiveRecord model layer. Objects, fields, and relationships are all auto surfaced as active record attributes and rels.”

We have been working like mad (this one is outside our normal workday) to get the project to be ready for beta this week - please log bugs for any issues you find! There are currently 2 of us developing on this: myself (senior member of the Salesforce.com Platform team in R&D) and Pete Morelli (senior member of the Salesforce.com API team). our goal is to make Salesforce.com an outstanding backend for developing in Ruby and RoR applications (I am also a customer of this using RoR with ASF in some of my “day job” work around improving parts of Salesforce.com like scontrols, web tabs, and presentation layer integration and templating support in general).

]]> By: Todd Breiholz http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/02/10/activesalesforce-connector-for-rails/#comment-45 Todd Breiholz Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:56:52 +0000 http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/?p=76#comment-45 I ran across this last week and started playing with it. It seems to be in active development with several releases in the last couple of weeks. In truth, calling it an extension to Rails is a bit misleading. It's actually an ActiveRecord data source. This distinction may be a bit pedantic, but I think it's important to note that ActiveSalesforce is not restricted to web-based applications using Rails, but can be used in plain Ruby scripts/applicaitions. I've definitiely had some success with the current release. The developers have included code to auto recognize relationships to other objects and follow ActiveRecord rules for referencing those relationships. Definitely something to watch! I ran across this last week and started playing with it. It seems to be in active development with several releases in the last couple of weeks.

In truth, calling it an extension to Rails is a bit misleading. It’s actually an ActiveRecord data source. This distinction may be a bit pedantic, but I think it’s important to note that ActiveSalesforce is not restricted to web-based applications using Rails, but can be used in plain Ruby scripts/applicaitions.

I’ve definitiely had some success with the current release. The developers have included code to auto recognize relationships to other objects and follow ActiveRecord rules for referencing those relationships.

Definitely something to watch!

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