I recently ran in to a blog article which referenced an online application called HopToad (http://www.hoptoadapp.com).  HopToad is an online application that plugs directly into your Rails
application and collects all errors that are thrown in your app in a
neat and readable UI. I have about 15 Rails applications out there
right now, and HopToad is a life-saver for me.

The best thing is, it’s free. Go to http://www.hoptoadapp.com to try it out.

This is just a quick fix:

1. Freeze the ActiveSalesforce gem (http://gemsonrails.rubyforge.org )
2. Open the file vendor/gems/activesalesforce-x.x.x/lib/asf_adapter.rb
3. Modify the line where the variable MAX_BOXCAR_SIZE is set (line 120 for me) and set the value to 2000, or whatever max you want.
4. Save the file and restart your server.  Life is good again

Like I said, this is only a quick fix and doesn't resolve the main issue of what to do if the query returns more results than we are allotted to work with

I will be working on a patch to allow dealing with queries as such.

I have been accepted by O'REILLY publishing to write a pocket reference on Rails 2.0.  I'm very excited to get this done.  I plan on having the final copy to OREILLY  by the end of May or mid June this year. :-D

iContact.com is the #1 provider of Email Marketing tools online.  I had an opportunity to test them out against some of their competitors and was amazed on how easy it was to use.

You can find them at www.icontact.com

I have been beating my head against the wall for about 6 months trying to figure this out. Here is the step by step process that I used to convert this lead. I am assuming that you already have ActiveSalesforce installed and useable. Please see the examples at ActiveSalesforce to learn how to set it up.
Create a model called lead.rb in your app/models folder and put the following line into the body of the class (assuming your database.yml file has a sf_development and an sf_production configured:

Now run your console with script/console. Here's where I had a lot of questions and was not able to figure it out. First of all, make sure you are able to get a lead by typing

If you get results, then we're good so far. I found out that you can access the binding directly from the Lead object by doing the following:

You will need to use this to convert the lead. Now that you have a lead object, do the following:

Note that the convertedStatus may be 'Qualified' or something else. You can find it by manually converting a lead on Salesforce and viewing what the convert status is. Next type:

This will either return an error or the results which include a new accountId, contactId and opportunityId.
There you go. It was easier than I had thought.