{"id":3963,"date":"2016-12-19T11:41:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T11:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.botreetechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2022-12-13T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:06:37","slug":"ruby-on-rails-application-on-bigcommerce-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.botreetechnologies.com\/blog\/ruby-on-rails-application-on-bigcommerce-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby on Rails: BigCommerce Integration in Simple Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BigCommerce offers a simple solution to start an online store. It provides more than 400 features for your online store, and maintenance & configuration of your store is easy and fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BigCommerce has its own application store where you can find thousands of useful application\/plugins to enhance user experience and workflow (eg. register the order your ERP as it gets created) and access them with a single click. They provide REST APIs and official SDKs for Ruby, PHP, C# and Node.js which makes application development easy. You can easily create and integrate your powerful eCommerce plug-in<\/a> using their developer friendly platform<\/a>\u00a0and reach thousands of merchants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article we are going to create a Ruby on Rails application<\/a> to manage BigCommerse product management and integrate it with BigCommerce platform. We will create a Rails application to access the list of all products from merchant’s store and perform operations like create new product, update product details and delete product. We will also understand what is webhook, how to register and handle it from the Rails application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all we need to create a trial store on BigCommerce site. Visit BigCommerce<\/a> and click Get Started button on top right corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will be redirected to Admin page of your store after signing up and there you can manage all the things of your store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now your store is ready for use.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"BigCommerce\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Let’s create an application in developer’s account on BigCommerce. Go to Bigcommerce Developer platform<\/a> to create one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now click My Apps link on top right corner of the home page and login with your credentials of big commerce account you created previously. After successful login attempt, you will be able to see the login page with no application created. Now create your first application here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I created an application and name it EasyProductManagement.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"EasyProductManagement\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Click on the View client ID icon and you can see a popup containing BigCommerce client ID and BigCommerce client Secret token. We will use it later on in our Rails app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have a BigCommerce application with credentials ready for use to access our store using Rest API.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s move to the Rails part now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, Create a new Rails application and add these two gems in your gemfile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

gem 'omniauth-bigcommerce'\ngem 'bigcommerce', '~> 1.0.0'<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
omniauth-bigcommerce<\/a> – This gem provides a dead simple way to authenticate to Bigcommerce using OmniAuth. It implements OmniAuth Bigcommerce Strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bigcommerce<\/a> – This is the official BigCommerce API Ruby client to support their Stores API.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now run bundle install command<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Create a config\/initializers\/omniauth.rb<\/code> initializer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n