Category Archives: SugarCRM Ruby gem

Data wrangling and Ruby metaprogramming

Posted on May 29, 2011 by David Sulc

I needed to combine customer data from 2 separate sources (a homebrew warehouse and CRM) and output a report. Given I’d be dealing with similar objects with overlapping attributes, it would be really easy to make a gigantic mess with … Continue reading →

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Adding a namespaced Rails generator to a standalone Ruby gem

Posted on May 22, 2011 by David Sulc

I wanted to add a generator to the SugarCRM ruby gem, but couldn’t find any straightforward resources on doing just that: taking a standalone ruby gem, and adding a generator that is available from within a Rails environment. To make matters … Continue reading →

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Ruby Gem for SugarCRM: Advanced use

Posted on April 5, 2011 by David Sulc

This is an article about “advanced” use of the SugarCRM Ruby gem. We’ve previously covered using basic gem functionality, and building a simple rails app using the gem to make a CRM portal, so you might want to take a … Continue reading →

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Ruby Gem for SugarCRM: Ruby on Rails Integration

Posted on April 4, 2011 by David Sulc

Having gone over the basics in a previous article, we will now cover how you can get a basic Rails 3 app (using the SugarCRM Ruby gem) up and running. (The SugarCRM Ruby gem relies on ActiveSupport >= 3, and … Continue reading →

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Ruby Gem for SugarCRM: the Basics

Posted on April 3, 2011 by David Sulc

The Ruby gem for SugarCRM has already been briefly presented in a SugarCRM Developer Zone article, but has been drastically improved over the last months. In the following lines, we’ll go over a few of these improvements and show you … Continue reading →

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