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PlankTon
PlankTon

Reputation: 12605

Rails: Sending POST data to both local and remote server

I have a form which I'd like to save through a standard RESTful rails pattern, but I also need to insert a lead into SalesForce via post. Admittedly I'm quite a newbie on this - any suggestions on the most elegant way to do this?

Cheers...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 784

Answers (2)

Kevin Tsoi
Kevin Tsoi

Reputation: 1807

You can do something like the following after your model save is successful.

res = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(SALESFORCE_URL),
            {'param_name1' => param_value1})
result = res.body

Or use a salesforce gem to do that update. Something like http://rubygems.org/gems/activesalesforce

Upvotes: 1

Maurício Linhares
Maurício Linhares

Reputation: 40333

You receive the form and then, inside your controller, you make a call to Salesforce, possibly using something like RestClient

def create
  @your_object = MyObject.new(params[:my_object])
  @your_object.save
  SalesforceService.post( @your_object )
  redirect_to home_path
end

You could also use Resque to make this call in a background worker to make your requests faster.

Upvotes: 2

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