Question

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…

Answer 1

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.