sapnwrfc - SAP Netweaver RFC support for Ruby 1.9.x¶ ↑

Summary¶ ↑

Welcome to the sapnwrfc Ruby package. This package is intended to facilitate RFC calls to an SAP R/3 system of release NW2004x and above. It may work for earlier versions but it hasn’t been tested. The fundamental purpose of the production of this package, is to provide a clean object oriented interface to RFC calls from within Ruby. This will hopefully have a number of effects:

(1) make it really easy to do RFC calls to SAP from Ruby in an object oriented fashion (Doh!)

(2) promote Ruby as the interface/scripting/glue language of choice for interaction with SAP R/3.

(3) make the combination of Linux, Apache, and Ruby the killer app for internet connectivity with SAP.

(4) Establish a small fun open source project that people are more than welcome to contribute to, if they so wish.

Installation¶ ↑

After you have unpacked your kit, you should have all the files listed in the MANIFEST.

In brief, the following should work on most systems:

ruby setup.rb

if your rfcsdk is not findable in the system search path, then use the command line switches for mkmf/setup.rb like so:

ruby setup.rb config  --with-nwrfcsdk-dir=/path/to/rfcsdk
ruby setup.rb setup

Now you can either install like so:

ruby setup.rb install

or build the gem and install that like so:

gem build sapnwrfc.linux.gemspec
gem uninstall sapnwrfc
gem install sapnwrfc-<version>-<architecture>.gem

VERY IMPORTANT - make sure that you add the library path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH eg - mine is:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/piers/code/sap/nwrfcsdk/lib

Documents and Tests¶ ↑

doc/*

Module Documentation

tests/*.rb

Test basic connection, and some rfc call examples

Credits¶ ↑

GitHub repo

Michele Franzin <[email protected]>

Ruby 1.9.x porting

Michele Franzin <[email protected]>

License¶ ↑

saprfc is Copyright © 2006-2008 Piers Harding. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the README file of the Ruby distribution.

One last thing - The SAP RFCSDK is a prerequisite for this perl package to work. The RFCSDK is proprietrary software owned by SAP AG. For this reason I will not supply ANY component part of the RFCSDK with this perl package, and further more you must obtain it through the normal channels with SAP AG - ie. you must have a licensed SAP R/3 installation at your disposal.

Other stuff¶ ↑

Author

Piers Harding <[email protected]>

Requires

Ruby 1.9.x or later

License

Copyright © 2006-2008 Piers Harding Released under Ruby’s License