From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T08:53:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie


On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:19 PM, dishmael@windwardcg.com wrote:

> Hi all, hope this is the right place ...
>
> I just started learning Ruby and as my first project I'm trying to  
> migrate
> a web front-end for SalesForce.com that was written in PHP.  The  
> old PHP
> site used SOAP to interact with SalesForce.com and that seems to work
> great so I figure I'd start hunting around for docs to see if  
> anyone else
> had done the leg work (no point in reinventing the wheel and all).
>
> I didn't find anything on SOAP and the docs were cryptic to me  
> (remember,
> I'm still learning this stuff).  I did run across one site that used
> XMLRPC rather than SOAP so I decided to give that a try.
>
> When you connect/login to SalesForce.com they send you a session_id  
> that
> needs to be placed in the HTTP header as a cookie.  When I go to  
> set it in
> the XMLRPC object:
>
> server = XMLRPC::Client.new(host, path)
> server.cookie = result['session_id']
>
> I'm getting the following error:
>
> ./sforce.rb:100:in `reinitialize_server': undefined method `cookie'  
> for
> #<XMLRPC::Client:0x2beaf18> (NoMethodError)
>
> I checked the XMLRPC class (which seems to come with Ruby) and it  
> has an
> attr_accessor for :cookie as well as a cookie variable in the  
> initialize
> method and yet I can't set/get it.  I could really use a pointer in  
> the
> right direction here, I feel like I'm spinning my wheels.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
>
>
>

Well I don't know much (if anything) about XMLRPC or SOAP, but if you  
want to try to work with the SOAP interface, this will probably help:
http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r