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Functionality

This is a Web App which can be used to populate demo data in a Salesforce instance by seeding it with public company data from LinkedIn. The data that can be generated includes: Leads, Opportunities and Accounts. To seed data simply:

• Go into the Linkedin Section and perform a query
• Add the desired objects to your shopping cart
• Once you have enough data:
  • Navigate to the Salesforce object type of choice(Lead, Opportunity or Account)
  • Click Generate

You can try it live at https://salesforce-demo.cloudfoundry.com/

Using Cloud Foundry

I used CloudFoundry to invoke Salesforce REST API since CloudFoundry supports SSL out of the box and Redis which is what I used for the shopping cart. If you have not heard of Cloud Foundry here are some steps to get you started

Getting Started

• Register at http://cloudfoundry.com/ for an account if you don't have one

Open a terminal window and run

gem install vmc
vmc target api.cloudfoundry.com
vmc login <email>

Clone this repository if you have not done so already and make your modifications.

In particular you need to make a copy of add_keys_sample.sh as add_keys.sh and put in it your credentials:

• LinkedIn App Key and Secret and
• Salesforce App Key and Secret
• Also for salesforce_instance_url use your instance like na3

Then deploy to Cloud Foundry. Example

vmc push --nostart

This push will use the manifest.yml to create a redis service and bind it to your app which has been created with a semi random name

You can then add all the keys

export APP_NAME=<new_app_name>
./add_keys.sh
vmc start

Then go to your Cloud Foundry app to test. Remember to use SSL

Application details

• Simple Sinatra Web App built using Ruby 1.9.2
  • The main file is demo.rb
  • Uses OAuth 2.0 and LinkedIn gems
  • Styling done with 960.gs. See style.css
• The project will be open sourced under MIT License

About the Salesforce code

I updated the source code from a recipe submitted here to use the latest version of the OAuth2 gem http://developer.force.com/cookbook/recipe/interact-with-the-forcecom-rest-api-from-ruby I still had to monkey patch one item on the OAuth 2.0 client since Salesforce is using an old draft of OAuth 2 (draft 10)

More info on Salesforce REST API here: http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/Content/quickstart_code.htm

About the LinkedIn code

I used the main LinkedIn gem located here: https://github.com/pengwynn/linkedin and patches from this pull request hexgnu/linkedin#55 (comment) added to linkedin_client.rb