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Filemarker requirements? #13

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thinkmorebetter opened this issue May 27, 2013 · 9 comments
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Filemarker requirements? #13

thinkmorebetter opened this issue May 27, 2013 · 9 comments

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@thinkmorebetter
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Hi Bill,

Couldn't find any other way to contact you other than this way, so apologies for the "issue"

I'm completely new for Filemaker, but I was recently asked if it was possible to integrate a Filemaker database at a friend's office with a cloud-based website built in Rails. Clearly, this gem looks like it'll work for this, but I'm just wondering if there are any additional requirements that I'm not yet aware of.

For example, there's Filemaker Pro and then there's Server. Would this gem be able to connect with just the Pro version?

Thanks,
Alex

@ginjo
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ginjo commented Jun 15, 2013

Good question - I need to update the docs with this info.

The Rfm gem requires any version of Filemaker Server that offers the XML API with the fmresultset XML grammar. Since Filemaker Pro (client) does not offer this functionality, it would not work as a database host for Rfm.

Best,
Bill

@kjohnston
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Does FileMaker 13 and/or 14 use the XML API with the fmresultset XML?

@ginjo
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ginjo commented May 12, 2015

Yes and Probably. Filemaker Server 13 serves up the fmresultset grammar and XML just fine. I'm guessing Filemaker Server 14 does as well, but I haven't used it yet.

@kjohnston
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@ginjo, thanks for the prompt response and for your continued support of this project.

@kjohnston
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We've been running 3.0.9 against FileMaker 14 for the last couple of weeks and all has been well. Thanks for the continued support!

@kjohnston
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@ginjo we've been using 3.0.11 against FileMaker 15 for a while now and all is well. Any plans to support FileMaker >= 16?

@ginjo
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ginjo commented Dec 16, 2017

@kjohnston , yes absolutely 😃. I've just recently acquired access to a FM Server 16 for testing, so I'll check it out. However, as far as I know, there are no changes to the XML interface in FM Server 16. So you should be able to use Rfm with FM Server 16 right now. Of course, if you do find bugs, feel free to post them as issues.

Re the new FM API feature, I'm mulling over whether it makes any sense to incorporate that into Rfm. I don't think there is anything it can do that the XML interface doesn't support. I suppose if someone wants raw JSON responses from FM Server in the context of a ruby application, that might be something worth considering. This is probably a good point to create a new issue/topic for discussion on here (github) or on the Rfm Community google-group.

@KA-HQ
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KA-HQ commented Dec 18, 2017

HI There,
I have written a wrapper around the data api. My first project with ruby...
It is a private git. Would anyone like to join and make the project better ?

@kjohnston
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@ginjo awesome, thanks!

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