h1. Connect to Sage

Version 0.1 - 16 January 2009

h2. Getting started

# Run the generator
# Add sage_invoice (or sage_sales_order) to the start of you Order model
# Add sage_customer to the start of your Customer model
# Edit the generated SageImport model to map fields as appropriate

h2. The Generator

This plugin should (hopefully) make it easy to hook up your Rails application 
to Sages Line 50 accountancy software, via Internetware's commercial Connect #
product.

To get started run

<code>
  script/generate sage [ControllerName] [CustomerModelName] [OrderModelName]
</code>

eg.

<code>
  script/generate sage Sage Shopper Cart
</code>

All parameters are optional - if the Order model is omitted, then the 
generator will try to find an Order model - if it can't then generator will
just raise an error. Likewise, it will test for Customer, then User as 
CustomerModelName's, the controller will default to Sage if a ControllerName
is not supplied.

The generator takes 3 options
--download-only - Generate stub code for the upload URL which does nothing
--upload-only   - Generate stub code for the download and import URL which only
  sends down an empty xml file
--sales-orders will generate Sales Orders in Sage instead of Invoices
  (if you need to change to this later on then all you need to do is edit the
SageDownload model and change

  has_and_belongs_to_many :invoices
to
  has_and_belongs_to_many :sales_orders

Edit the SageImport model and change

  has_many :invoices
to
  has_many :sales_orders
  
And edit your Order model and change

  sage_invoice
to
  sage_sales_order

h2. Downloading data




Copyright (c) 2009 Jeremy Wilkins, released under the MIT license