Use with Rails

If using in the Rails framework, we highly recommend you use the shopify_app gem to interact with this gem. Authentication, session storage, webhook registration, and other frequently implemented paths are managed in that gem with easy to use configurations.

Requirements

To follow these usage guides, you will need to:

• have a working knowledge of ruby and a web framework such as Rails or Sinatra
• have a Shopify Partner account and development store
• have an app already set up in your test store or partner account
• add the URL and the appropriate redirect for your OAuth callback route to your app settings

Installation

Add the following to your Gemfile:

gem "shopify_api"

or use bundler:

bundle add shopify_api

Steps to use the Gem

Setup Shopify Context

Start by initializing the ShopifyAPI::Context with the parameters of your app by calling ShopifyAPI::Context.setup (example below) when your app starts (e.g application.rb in a Rails app).

ShopifyAPI::Context.setup(
  api_key: "<api-key>",
  api_secret_key: "<api-secret-key>",
  host: "<https://application-host-name.com>",
  scope: "read_orders,read_products,etc",
  is_embedded: true, # Set to true if you are building an embedded app
  api_version: "2022-01", # The version of the API you would like to use
  is_private: false, # Set to true if you have an existing private app
)

Performing OAuth

You need to go through OAuth as described here to create sessions for shops using your app. The Shopify API gem tries to make this easy by providing functions to begin and complete the OAuth process. See the Oauth doc for instructions on how to use these.

Register Webhooks and a Webhook Handler

If you intend to use webhooks in your application follow the steps in the Webhooks doc for instructions on registering and handling webhooks.

Start Making Authenticated Shopify API Requests

Once your app can perform OAuth, it can now make authenticated Shopify API calls, see docs for:

• Making Admin REST API requests
• Making Admin GraphQL API requests
• Making Storefront GraphQL API requests

Breaking Change Notices

Breaking change notice for version 15.0.0

See BREAKING_CHANGES_FOR_V15

Breaking change notice for version 10.0.0

See BREAKING_CHANGES_FOR_V10

Breaking changes for older versions

See BREAKING_CHANGES_FOR_OLDER_VERSIONS

Developing this gem

After cloning the repository, you can install the dependencies with bundler:

bundle install

To run the automated tests:

bundle exec rake test

We use rubocop to lint/format the code. You can run it with the following command:

bundle exec rubocop