I am looking to write an external payment interface to my SQL-Ledger
accounting system. The idea is that I can create a quote in the ledger
and then the customer can log into the front-end system which will
confirm the total price of the quote and allow them to enter credit card
details (then redirected out to Protx to take the payment)
The question is how to extract the data from SQL-Ledger… For security
reasons the frontend will be on a different machine, so essentially I
need to make an HTML post and then parse back the HTML result
Any suggestions on the best way to approach this last problem in Rails?
I guess the best place to put the code is in the model. Are there any
tried and tested approaches to using Curl in a model and parsing the
resulting response? Any example code kicking around?
Cheers
Ed W