All, My company uses Goldmine as its contact/sales opportunity manager. (Uses Dbase for it''s DB). I''m trying to get a Rails app to implement the parts of it we actually use. I''ve been building my Rails app in MySQL. Now I''m need to start getting data from Goldmine into my Rails app. What''s the recommended approach? A one time transfer of data? (Via what tool?) Some kind of ongoing sync where data added to Goldmine (Dbase 4) automatically gets added to my Rails App? If their is a book that covers this, a simple reference would be great. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century
One-time transfer of data using Java/jdbc, DOM, and XSLT. A generic data transfer and manipulation tool takes about three days to write from scratch with this combination and runs as fast as any vendor''s data loading tool. I can''t get more specific than this without violating my employment contract. On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 17:37 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:> All, > > My company uses Goldmine as its contact/sales opportunity manager. > (Uses Dbase for it''s DB). > > I''m trying to get a Rails app to implement the parts of it we actually use. > > I''ve been building my Rails app in MySQL. Now I''m need to start > getting data from Goldmine into my Rails app. > > What''s the recommended approach? > > A one time transfer of data? (Via what tool?) > > Some kind of ongoing sync where data added to Goldmine (Dbase 4) > automatically gets added to my Rails App? > > If their is a book that covers this, a simple reference would be great. > > Thanks > Greg
I also would do a one-time data transfer. It would be awesome if Goldmine had something like a export to CSV option; then you could just import it and transform it. If you''re stuck hacking the legacy db all by yourself, see if someone else has written some sort of export tool. Failing that, you have to write a program to transform the data into some format that would make sense for your app. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
navicat will import dbase to mysql Jodi On 3-Jun-06, at 5:37 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:> All, > > My company uses Goldmine as its contact/sales opportunity manager. > (Uses Dbase for it''s DB). > > I''m trying to get a Rails app to implement the parts of it we > actually use. > > I''ve been building my Rails app in MySQL. Now I''m need to start > getting data from Goldmine into my Rails app. > > What''s the recommended approach? > > A one time transfer of data? (Via what tool?) > > Some kind of ongoing sync where data added to Goldmine (Dbase 4) > automatically gets added to my Rails App? > > If their is a book that covers this, a simple reference would be > great. > > Thanks > Greg > -- > Greg Freemyer > The Norcross Group > Forensics for the 21st Century > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails