Starter App for local Heroku Connect development

Starter application for local Heroku Connect development. Used in following blog post: Local development with Heroku Connect

Based on Rails 4.1.6 and displays all Salesforce Contacts under /contacts.

Attention: You will need Heroku Connect set up in your Heroku environment for this to work

How to get started

• Clone the repository
• Install Heroku toolbelt/CLI
• run heroku create

Follow the instructions set out in: Local development with Heroku Connect

If you want to create your own app

Most like you'll only be interested in app/models/salesforce_model.rb and app/models/contact.rb

The Salesforce model is a subclass of ActiveRecord allowing you to access the Heroku Connect tables in your Postgres DB and the Contact model gives you an example of how you can subclass this and specify your table names.