Question

I have add custom field to Account with picklist(multiple) in Salesforce. But the values of picklist should be dynamically generated from other object. If not, is it possible to push values in picklist from native app(which is written in ruby)?

Answer 1

I had to update picklist with values from my database (and not from some visualforce page). So I authenticated account using Databasedotcom gem and it provides nice Api to iteract with Salesforce Objects (both Standard and Custom).

 client.authenticate :token => "my-oauth-token", :instance_url => "http://na1.salesforce.com"  #=> "my-oauth-token"

 account = client.materialize("Account")
 account_to_be_updated = account.find(account_id) # here account is same as Instance of Activerecord
 account_to_be_updated.my_picklist = [value1; value2; value3; value4]
 account_to_be_updated.save