title: Quickbooks integration in a rails application
body: <p>I am new to Quickbooks. I looked at the integrations that they support but could not narrow down to the best approach. </p>
  
  <p>I am dealing with QuickBooks Desktop (Mac) and trying to integrate with a rails application.</p>
  
  <p>I found a couple of options:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>QuickBooks Desktop REST API (Can this be used in rails and mac environment? Also there is an announcement on it's deprecation: <a href="https://developer.intuit.com/blog/2014/09/08/timeline-to-discontinue-the-quickbooks-desktop-rest-api" rel="nofollow">https://developer.intuit.com/blog/2014/09/08/timeline-to-discontinue-the-quickbooks-desktop-rest-api</a>)</li>
  <li>QuickBooks SDK (Can this be used in rails and mac environment. If yes, how?)</li>
  <li>QuickBooks Web Connector (There is a gem qbwc <a href="https://github.com/qbwc/qbwc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/qbwc/qbwc</a> but not sure on what after this and can this be used in rails and mac environment?)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Hence the question: What is the best way to integrate quickbooks in a rails application for retrieving customers data, creating/sending invoice for them etc.?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>