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This repository is home to the code examples highlighted in variousShopify API tutorials. They are designed solely for the purpose of introducing new developers to the Shopify API. The example apps are written inSinatra, but the concepts presented will also apply to developers building applications in other languages such as Python, Node.js and PHP.

1 Getting Started: Building a public Shopify application (tutorial)

2 Charging For Your App: Adding billing to your app (tutorial)

• Ruby (sample apps were written with Ruby 2.2.1)
• Bundler for Ruby, a dependency manager
• Shopify Partners account

Followthis guide to obtain your public app credentials from your Shopify Partners account.

This example app uses a.env file to store app credentials. After cloning the repository, create a.env file in the root folder (/example-ruby-app) using the code snippet below. Then, copy the values of theAPI Key andAPI Secret from your partner dashboard, and use them as the values in.env.

API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEYAPI_SECRET=YOUR_SECRET_KEY

YOUR_API_KEY andYOUR_SECRET_KEY are the values you must replace.

This tutorial series usesngrok to create a secure tunnel from the internet to your local machine. For each installment in the series, you will need to copy theAPP_URL generated by ngrok to yourapp.rb file. Additionally, theAPP_URL needs to be added to theApp URLs section of your public app settings. These procedures are covered in theBuilding a public Shopify application tutorial.

bundleinstallruby01\Getting\Started/app.rb