# Syncing offline data to Rails app

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/syncing-offline-data-to-rails-app/151657>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 24, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/syncing-offline-data-to-rails-app/151657 "2008-10-24T02:01:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![shenry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@shenry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shenry)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/syncing-offline-data-to-rails-app/151657/1 "2008-10-24T02:01:02Z")

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I’m wondering how to go about setting up an app to allow data  
collection offline that is later sync’d to the master db…

I picture the data collection being done on a PDA or something similar  
and then docked and uploaded to the master online db, are there  
plugins that handle this?

Any ideas or links to other similar discussions are appreciated.  
Thanks,

SH

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**Author:** ![shenry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@shenry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shenry)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/syncing-offline-data-to-rails-app/151657/2 "2008-10-24T16:45:06Z")

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Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![shenry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@shenry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shenry)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/syncing-offline-data-to-rails-app/151657/3 "2008-10-24T17:24:26Z")

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You could write a small ruby app that reads the data and then posts to  
you site through HTTP.