Hello, Im trying to decide the best way to implement an interface to quickbooks using xml. I have
class Timecard < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :quickbook after_create :quickbooks_add_timecard #this method calls self.quickbook.add_timecard end
the thing is that I thought it was gonna work out great, I could put all my xml templates in a views directory and have everything nice and organized. The problem is that It seems like this operation should be triggered from model callbacks, and I would lilke to put somethign like this in the quickbook.rb model:
class Quickbook < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :timecard def add_timecard request_xml = render_to_string :template => "quickbooks/add_timecard" send_data(request_xml) end end
I see 3 options: 1.) move this callback logic out of the model and put it in the controller in the first place. 2.) use Builder::XmlMarkup directly in the model, to generate an xml request strig, loading the templates directly, load "app/views/quickbooks/add_timecard" 3.) Figure out how to get a rendered template from within the model (like shown above)
Option 3 seems the cleanest to me, it just goes against my normal conventions of putting data model rules in the model. I'd like to figure out how to do #3 in any case.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Michael Fairhchild The only problem with this is Im not sure