Hi Jason,

I've started looking into using ActiveRecord in Rails to plug into the Sierra Postgres tables.

I'm still learning how to work with Ruby and Rails, but initial experiments are working:

https://github.com/jamesvanmil/ActiveSierra 

(really have just written a few simple models with some relationships)

James Van Mil
Collections & Electronic Resources Librarian
University of Cincinnati Libraries
Telephone: (513)556-1410
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-James

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Subject: [CODE4LIB] local APIs atop III's Sierra DB

Hello Code4lib,

I'm wondering if any III Sierra users out there have worked on building an API for accessing their ILS data on top of Sierra's Postgres database. Right now I'm looking into possibly building something to serve local needs and use cases, as we're not terribly confident that III's forthcoming APIs--if they are indeed forthcoming--will really fit the bill.

If this is something you're doing or have considered doing and wouldn't mind comparing notes, please drop me a line! Thanks.

Jason Thomale
Resource Discovery Systems Librarian
University of North Texas