It’s been quiet here on this blog. Let’s break the silence with this slide presentation. Hope you enjoy it.
Ajuby is getting tested in lot of “real-world” scenarios. We are learning a lot and coming up with new features and insights. You will be getting some of that in 0.6 release.
Exciting, isn’t it?
Next, we have to fill in the application’s credentials and settings. The main things to be filled in are:
Support Email: This email address is used for the notification purpose to inform the creator of the application about any of the updates or problems.
Callback URL: This is the URL of the application. Suppose if user logs into Facebook and wants to add Ajuby into his/her Facebook account. When the user will click on add application then he/she will be redirected to this URL.
Canvas Page URL: This is the URL which will be embeded in the Facebook URL. The sample url would be like http://apps.facebook.com/myapp/
There are two options to display your application in Facebook. Either we can use the FBML or iframe. It is recommended to use FBML for faster access to the application within Facebook.
Application Type: You can also define the application type, either it’s an web-application or desktop application. Aslo mention the IP address of servers making the request to the application.
Let’s see how we can add application to Facebook. I will be adding Ajuby to Facebook.
Login to Facebook with your login credentials. Click on the Developers link on the application block(at teh extreme left). Click on the Set Up New Application.
Now fill-in the name of the application that you want to add in the Facebook.
To fill in the additional information about the application click on the optional fields.
Now, when I have mashed-up SugarCRM with Ajuby, can I create new data in SugarCRM using Ajuby? Yes, of course, it’s as easy as 1..2….3 and go!
Let’s login to Ajuby and create a quick Contact. Click on control panel and go to SugarCRM mash-up.
Fill-in your SugarCRM instance’s web services details.(To get the WSDL URL, check this out)
Save and click on Browse Objects.
Here you can see all the modules within SugarCRM. Click on the new button.
Fill-in the details of the new contact to be created and save.
Now click on the List Contacts.
Wow!! It’s here. That’s really so easy to create quick contacts using Ajuby 
For now SugarCRM only allows to create Accounts, Cases, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities. Similarly we can create the same.
[ Hat tip to Michael Hartl in his upcoming book - RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails ]
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No company can provide all the necessary functionality to solve business problems. That is the reason why we have so many innovative companies providing niche solutions. Over the last couple of years, Software-as-a-service (SaaS) became dominant deployment architecture of innovative software companies. As more and more companies offer their solution in a SaaS deployment model, customers will find that they will require a new breed of software which can connect all these new cloud-based services. Enter Mashup architecture.
Wikipedia defines Mashup as:
“A mashup is a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.”
Companies want to create adhoc business solutions by mashing up disparate web services. Ajuby roadmap is based on achieving that goal. Today we released next version of Ajuby which will take closer to that goal. Following on our motto which is to “be useful first” we created Rails based system which allows data sharing between leading business application (Salesforce, SugarCRM, BaseCamp) and infrastructure service (Amazon S3).
This release includes many new features, lot of bug fixes, better browser compatibility, robust theme management and more. Please refer to Wiki for complete list of features.
Team worked very hard to get all the pieces together, test it, catch bugs, retest it. Rinse, lather, repeat - you know the drill. Writing code is fun but it does take lot of iterations. Thanks to wonderful support by all team members - in particular Deepak, Rajesh, Mayank and Moses deserve special praise for working late hours. Code is the proof!
Ajuby is our first project using open source model and we are learning something new everyday. As it happens with many new things you also develop new ways of doing those things. We internally created adhoc all hands beat-the-software approach called Test Marathon. Everybody at Apptility pitched into Test Marathons. Result is all there on the bug list. Team found many bugs and they fixed nearly all of them.
Please go ahead and download the 0.5 version from Google Code repository. Your comments and wish list will be greatly appreciated.
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Let’s see how we can make SugarCRM more sweet using Ajuby.
Login to Ajuby, and go to Control Panel. Click on the SugarCRM link under Mashup settings.
Now it will take us to the page where we have to create SugarCRM mashup with Ajuby. Fill in the web-services details of SugarCRM. Hey, there’s a trick to get the WSDL file of your SugarCRM. Type the url of your SugarCRM instance and add soap.php in the tail. This will open the page where you can get the WSDL url of the instance.
Use this to fill in the web-services details.
Wow! Let’s test the connection.
Checking the connection will give the following information:
Let’s hit the Browse Objects button. Here they are, now I can see all the modules within SugarCRM. Also I can browse through the modules and create new also.
Right now SugarCRM SOAP file allows to create new records in the
following modules: Accounts, Cases, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities.
We had lot of downloads in last few days. First of all big thanks for showing your support. We need that as our team works hard to finish last remaining browser compatibility bugs.
To all those who downloaded 0.4.7 version from Google Code, please checkout latest code from subversion repository. Subversion has nightly changes. To download latest code use following steps:
1. Go to Ajuby source site
2. Make sure you have subversion client setup. If not then follow this link
3. Once ready to checkout, run this command:
svn checkout http://openappdotorg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ openappdotorg
That should be sufficient to get the latest code. In case you run into any issues, shout for help on the forum.
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Over 700,000 projects on Basecamp has made Basecamp smarter, easier and more elegant practice to handle and manage internal and client’s project. Managing client’s projects and all the interactions and communications is the key for a long lasting relationship. When we talk about relationship with client/customer then another segment of application comes in focus; Customer Relationship Management System(CRM). To name few SugarCRM, Salesforce.com etc.
Now the next thing which comes in mind is why can’t we collaborate the project information on the Basecamp and SugarCRM. It would be much more helpful if the information is synchronised. Through Mashups settings in Ajuby the information at Basecamp and SugarCRM can be synchronised.
How to integrate Basecamp with Ajuby?(Asuming that you have your account at Basecamp. If not, you can register for a free account at Basecamp)
Step 1: Login to Ajuby using the Admin login credentials. Go to the control panel. Select the Basecamp from Mashup Settings.
Step 2: Fill in the Basecamp details like:
Hit the save button. It will take you to the next page where it will show you all the information you filled in with options to go back and edit the information or browse the objects from Basecamp site.
Step 3: Hit the Browse Objects page and it will take you to the page where you can see your Basecamp projects with options to Create in SugarCRM OR view the To-do lists.
Clicking on the create in sugarCRM will create a project in SugarCRM. Also you can view the list of Projects in SugarCRM and Basecamp.
Step 4: Click on the To-do lists to view the projects in your Basecamp. Here you have option to export the projects to your SugarCRM project list. This feature provides with the ability to create projects from Basecamp to SugarCRM. If projects are already there in the SugarCRM system then this will assign the projects to the Basecamp.
Step 5: After clicking on the “Export to SugarCRM” it will take you to the next page where it will give you options to browse to-do lists from Basecamp OR browse project tasks from SugarCRM.
Lot of developers come to Rails from other languages. Their background and grounding in those languages require deliberate de-learning in order to grasp Ruby philosophy.
Kalid has posted a wonderful summary of what to expect from Ruby/Rails if you are coming in from other language background. Would strongly recommend you read it once. Even if you are a master of Ruby and Rails it will help you to use this summary page to get new team member onboard.
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