Build and deploy a Shopify app in 8 minutes

This screencast walks you through the creation and deployment of a Rails app that integrates with the Shopify API. Thanks to the help of the shopify_app plugin and the Heroku deployment platform, the entire process takes about 8 minutes (including explanations along the way).

http://www.shopify.com/partners
http://github.com/Shopify/shopify_app
http://heroku.com

Update: The process for using API credentials in production have changed since the screencast was recorded. Instead of running shopify.yml through ERB, the shopify_app plugin now always looks for the environment variables for your credentials before resorting to shopify.yml. So shopify.yml should go in your .gitignore file as soon as you use the plugins generator, and then youll never have to worry about accidentally including live credentials in your code.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• ruby
• rails
• shopify
• shopify_app
• heroku
• twitter
• git
• api
• activeresource
• screencast

[juxtapos99]

I understood "This is James from Shopify." After that you started speaking Japanese and your terminal screen shots turned into Matrix characters.

Impressive nonetheless!

[sarmenhb]

you sound like your crying

[evortm]

Great help. But can you use a different voice the next time?