AirtableRails

AirtableRails is an easy and safe way to access Airtable. It handles client creation and app selection. Write methods are restricted to production and will write to log in other environments.

ENV["AIRTABLE_API_KEY"] = "key1234567890"
ENV["AIRTABLE_APP_ID"] = "app1234567890"

table = AirtableRails::Table.new("Table name")

table acts like an Airtable::Table as described here: https://github.com/Airtable/airtable-ruby.

Instead of creating records in two steps:

record = Airtable::Record.new(:name => "Sarah Jaine", :email => "sarah@jaine.com")
table.create(record)

you can use create_from_hash to do both in a single call:

table.create_from_hash(:name => "Sarah Jaine", :email => "sarah@jaine.com")

By default, write methods (create, update, destroy) only call Airtable if the Rails environment is production.

You can disable this behavior by passing the force_write option to the initializer:

table = AirtableRails::Table.new("Table name", force_write: true)