If you’re still looking for something in ruby to play around with, we’d love some help on our project XLsuite. It’s a full stack CRM built in ruby on rails with additional features such as integrated forums, site management and other goodies.

It’s open source code is at http://www.xlsuite.org

I found your site as we’ve been asked by a realtor to integrate his site into our system and we’re just looking into RETS and what ruby resources there are.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Riel Roussopoulos

You also have another option, but its not ActiveRecord friendly:  libRETS’s ruby bindings.  (FYI, ezRETS is build on libRETS.)  Dave Dribin has prototyped (and displayed at the last RETS commitee meeting) what he called "RETS on Rails."  Basically, it was using Rails to put a more RETSish API on top of RETS.  It uses rails and librets to make a web app.  Dave got the basics working in about three hours.  You can’t use ActiveRecord because its not abstracted off as a database, but you get direct access to the libRETS API which is much more flexible.  Unfortunately, we haven’t posted that code anywhere.  I’ll see if I can get Dave to post it somewhere as an example.