Configuring the Ruby API client library

The following guide shows you how to configure Bootic’s official Ruby API client.

If your Ruby project uses Bundler for dependency management, make sure to include the gem in your Gemfile.

gem 'bootic_client'

1. Configure the client.

You must first create an OAuth Application in Bootic’s developer portal. Once done that, use the application’s client_id and client_secret to configure your client instance.

BooticClient.configure do |c|
  c.client_id = 'MY_CLIENT_ID'
  c.client_secret = 'MY_CLIENT_SECRET'
  c.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT) # optional
  c.logging = true # optional
  c.cache_store = Rails.cache # optional
end

We recommend that you setup caching for production usage, for example using Memcache. See the client library’s documentation for more information.

2. Instantiate the client

Server to server scripts.

The following creates a Bootic client instance for server-to-server scripts.

client = BooticClient.client(:client_credentials, scope: 'admin')

User tokens (web apps)

If you’re using the client in the context of a web app or you have a user’s access token:

client = BooticClient.client(:authorized, access_token: session[:access_token], scope: 'admin') do |new_token|
  # optionally store new token for later use
  session[:access_token] = new_token
end

You can read this guide for a full tutorial on using the library in a Ruby on Rails web application.

3. Use it!

Now you have a fully authorized instance of the API client, which you can use to interact with the Bootic API.

# root resource
root = client.root

# your default shop
shop = root.shops.first

# list your products

shop.products.full_set.each do |product|
  puts product.title
end

Read the Ruby guides in this section to learn more, or read the library’s documentation for more details.