{"id":3980,"date":"2016-12-19T05:50:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T05:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.botreetechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2020-12-08T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:39:54","slug":"integrating-bigcommerce-api-with-rails-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.botreetechnologies.com\/blog\/integrating-bigcommerce-api-with-rails-application\/","title":{"rendered":"BigCommerce API: Accessing for Ruby on Rails application"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In previous article<\/a>, we saw how to create BigCommerce store, application and how to integrate it with our Rails application. Now let’s create a simple Rails application<\/a> which will interact with BigCommerce using its Rest API.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have already added bigcommmerce-api-ruby<\/a> gem for it. It’s an official Ruby client of Bigcommerce API. Our simple approach for this implementation is, when the load method is called from omniauth controller, we have store details in in params hash. We will use store params to find the store from the database and consider it as a current store throughout the user session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will create a method current_store in application controller to access the current store. Mark this method as a helper method so that we can access it in views as well. Each API call expects Oauth token and BigCommerce Client ID. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To fulfill this precondition, we will create a connection object first using the current store data and then we can use that connection object throughout the application to access the BigCommerce database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n