ActiveForce

Activeforce provides a clean ActiveRecord-like interface to the SalesForce.com REST API.

Activeforce does not provide any integration with any Appfolio products.

Detects the schema of the SalesForce Objects on the fly, so that you can interact with the familiar ActiveRecord style attribute accessor methods.
Provides full access to all methods provided to the SQL-like Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL).
Integrates with Salesforce.com REST-based BULK API.

Configuration

Simple Usage

Salesforce.configure do
  username "foo@bar.com"
  password "salesforcepassword"
end

The password is a combination of your salesforce password and the API Token

Specifying a particular API version

By default, activeforce uses version 22 of the Salesforce REST API. To specify another version:

Salesforce.configure do
  username "foo@bar.com"
  password "salesforcepasswordapitoken" # This should be your salesforce password + your API Token
  api_version 18
end

Using the Sandbox

Salesforce.configure do
  username "foo@bar.com.sandbox"
  password "salesforcepassword"
  end

Finders

activeforce provides implementation for some standard Salesforce Objects like Account, Contact, Opportunity, etc

Accessing custom objects

activeforce provides an easy way to declare models for custom objects or other SalesForce objects that are not included by default.

class Salesforce::CustomObject < Salesforce::Base
  self.custom_object = true
end

# or 

class Salesforce::Feed < Salesforce::Base
end

Find all objects

Salesforce::Account.all

Find Account by id

Salesforce::Account.find("accountid")

Dynamic Finders

Salesforce::Account.find_by_name("accountname")

Specifying conditions

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/index_Left.htm#CSHID=sforce_api_calls_soql.htm|StartTopic=Content%2Fsforce_api_calls_soql.htm|SkinName=webhelp

Salesforce::Account.find(:all, :conditions => ":name = :value", :value => "my special name") 
# Issues a SOQL query to search for all Account objects where the field 'Name' matches "my special name"
# The SOQL Query is SELECT Id,Name,... FROM Account WHERE Name = 'my special name'
#
# This method of specifying columns in the query handles custom columns as well.
Salesforce::Account.find(:all, :conditions => ":account_type = :value", :value => "Special")
# The SOQL Query issued here is  SELECT Id,Name,... FROM Account WHERE Account_Type__c = 'Special'

Creating and Updating Objects

Deleting Objects

Salesforce Bulk API

You can create and schedule a job by:

job = Salesforce::Account.bulk_update do
  batch do
    record account_1 # account_1 is an object of type Salesforce::Account
    record account_2 # account_1 is an object of type Salesforce::Account
  end
end

You can specify the columns that you want to update job = Salesforce::Account.bulk_update(:name, :website) do batch do record account_1 # account_1 is an object of type Salesforce::Account record account_2 # account_1 is an object of type Salesforce::Account end end

Contributing to activeforce

Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
Fork the project
Start a feature/bugfix branch
Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

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