databasedotcom is a gem to enable ruby applications to access the SalesForce REST API. If you use bundler, simply list it in your Gemfile, like so:
gem 'databasedotcom'
If you don’t use bundler, install it by hand:
gem install databasedotcom
Reference documentation is available at rubydoc.info
Source is available at github
When you create a Databasedotcom::Client object, you need to configure it with a client id and client secret that corresponds to one of the Remote Access Applications configured within your SalesForce instance. The SalesForce UI refers to the client id as “Consumer Key”, and to the client secret as “Consumer Secret”.
You can configure your Client object with a client id and client secret in one of several different ways:
If configuration information is present in the environment, the new Client will take configuration information from there.
export DATABASEDOTCOM_CLIENT_ID=foo export DATABASEDOTCOM_CLIENT_SECRET=bar
Then
client = Databasedotcom::Client.new client.client_id #=> foo client.client_secret #=> bar
If you pass the name of a YAML file when you create a Client, the new Client will read the YAML file and take the client id and client secret values from there.
# databasedotcom.yml # --- client_secret: bro client_id: baz
Then
client = Databasedotcom::Client.new("databasedotcom.yml") client.client_id #=> bro client.client_secret #=> baz
If you pass a hash when you create a Client, the new Client will take configuration information from that Hash.
client = Databasedotcom::Client.new :client_id => "sponge", :client_secret => "bob" client.client_id #=> sponge client.client_secret #=> bob
Configuration information present in the environment always takes precedence over that passed in via a YAML file or a Hash.
export DATABASEDOTCOM_CLIENT_ID=foo export DATABASEDOTCOM_CLIENT_SECRET=bar
Then
client = Databasedotcom::Client.new :client_id => "sponge", :client_secret => "bob" client.client_id #=> foo client.client_secret #=> bar
You can use the heroku config:add command to set environment variables:
heroku config:add DATABASEDOTCOM_CIENT_ID=foo heroku config:add DATABASEDOTCOM_CIENT_SECRET=bar
Then, when you create your client like:
client = Databasedotcom::Client.new
it will use the configuration information that you set with heroku config:add.
The first thing you need to do with the new Client is to authenticate with SalesForce. You can do this in one of several ways:
If you have acquired an OAuth access token for your SalesForce instance through some external means, you can use it. Note that you have to pass both the token and your SalesForce instance URL to the authenticate method:
client.authenticate :token => "my-oauth-token", :instance_url => "http://na1.salesforce.com" #=> "my-oauth-token"
If you are using the gem within the context of a web application, and your web app is using Omniauth to do OAuth with SalesForce, you can authentication the Client direction via the Hash that Omniauth passes to your OAuth callback method, like so:
client.authenticate request.env['omniauth.auth'] #=> "the-oauth-token"
You can authenticate your Client directly with SalesForce with a valid username and password for a user in your SalesForce instance. Note that, if access to your SalesForce instance requires a security token, the value that you pass for :password must be the password for the user concatenated with her security token.
client.authenticate :username => "foo@bar.com", :password => "ThePasswordTheSecurityToken" #=> "the-oauth-token"
You can retrieve a list of Sobject defined in your SalesForce instance like so:
client.list_sobjects #=> ['User', 'Group', 'Contact']
Once you have the name of an Sobject, the easiest way to interact with it is to first materialize it:
contact_class = client.materialize("Contact") #=> Contact
By default, Sobject classes are materialized into the global namespace- if you want materialize into another module, you can easily do configure this:
client.sobject_module = My::Module client.materialize("Contact") #=> My::Module::Contact
Materialized Sobject classes behave much like ActiveRecord classes:
contact = Contact.find("contact_id") #=> #<Contact @Id="contact_id", ...> contact = Contact.find_by_Name("John Smith") #=> dynamic finders! contacts = Contact.all #=> a Databasedotcom::Collection of Contact instances contacts = Contact.find_all_by_Company("IBM") #=> a Databasedotcom::Collection of matching Contacts contact.Name #=> the contact's Name attribute contact["Name"] #=> same thing contact.Name = "new name" #=> change the contact's Name attribute, in memory contact["Name"] = "new name" #=> same thing contact.save #=> save the changes to the database contact.update_attributes "Name" => "newer name", "Phone" => "4156543210" #=> change several attributes at once and save them contact.delete #=> delete the contact from the database
See the documentation for full details.
You can easily access Chatter feeds, group, conversations, etc.:
my_feed_items = Databasedotcom::Chatter::UserProfileFeed.find(client) #=> a Databasedotcom::Collection of FeedItems my_feed_items.each do |feed_item| feed_item.likes #=> a Databasedotcom::Collection of Like instances feed_item.comments #=> a Databasedotcom::Collection of Comment instances feed_item.raw_hash #=> the hash returned from the Chatter API describing this FeedItem feed_item.comment("This is cool") #=> create a new comment on the FeedItem feed_item.like #=> the authenticating user likes the FeedItem end me = Databasedotcom::Chatter::User.find(client, "me") #=> a User for the authenticating user me.followers #=> a Databasedotcom::Collection of Users me.post_status("what I'm doing now") #=> post a new status you = Databasedotcom::Chatter::User.find(client, "your-user-id") me.follow(you) #=> start following a user
See the documentation for full details.
This gem is licensed under the MIT License.