ways to access to salesforce

[dai]

Let's think about ways connecting to salesforce. salesforce has 2
interfaces from remote access.

The one, salesforce has, since almost 10 years ago, soap interface.
when you create custom objects, fields, etc, salesforce automatically
generates its wsdl files so you client application is able to login/
retrieve/insert/update/delete to salesforce.

The other way is a rest approach. recently salesforce has started a
rest api as developer preview. as authentication, you can use oauth1.0
or 2.0. After that, you can get data from, for example,
https://<salesforce-instance>.salesforce.com/..../Accounts as rest
style.

Speaking of soap approach, you can use activesalesforce gem while we
dont have library of rest access. well, rest is easy to use, so maybe
you dont need it.