Printfection Ruby API

Implementation of the Printfection API for Ruby.

At a high level, the Printfection API can be used to create, modify, place, and cancel orders. Orders are made up of a set of line items and a shipping address, but orders also expose detailed information about their products, sizes, assets, quantities, and availability.

Campaigns are logical groups of items used to organize your orders. Orders are always associated to exactly one campaign, and only items associated to a given campaign can be placed in an order in the same campaign. For example, your company's marketing department might have a Giveaway campaign with coffee mugs to reward loyal customers, and your engineering department might have a Purchase campaign with nerdy swag to outfit new hires.

Some campaigns have special abilities. Orders in giveaway and freeforall campaigns have a code and a web URL that can be used to redeem (i.e. place) that order. Orders in freeforall campaigns can be a gift and include a gift message.

You can read the full API documentation and object reference here.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'printfection'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install printfection

Usage

First, configure your API token. This can be found in your account on printfection.com.

require "printfection"

Printfection.api_token = "e3ce1ddf152d5533ca4a3d3543006bac6d57b2ac"

If you're using Rails, config/initializers/printfection.rb is a good place for this.

Retrieving an order

order = Printfection::Order.retrieve(5)

Listing all orders

orders = Printfection::Order.all
orders = Printfection::Order.all limit: 5, offset: 10

By default, list calls are automatically paginated and limited to 100 objects per request.

Creating an order

At a minimum, a new order can be created with just a campaign_id:

order = Printfection::Order.create(campaign_id: 1)
  #=> #<Printfection::Order id: 1, campaign_id: 1>

Once you have created an order, you can then begin adding line items. A line item requires an item_id, quantity, and a size_id if the item has sizes.

# Creating a line item with a size.
order.line_items.create(
  item_id: 1,
  size_id: 2,
  quantity: 3
)
  #=> #<Printfection::LineItem id: 1, order_id: 1, item_id: 1, size_id: 2, quantity: 3>

# Creating a line item without a size.
order.line_items.create(
  item_id: 2,
  quantity: 6
)
  #=> #<Printfection::LineItem id: 2, order_id: 1, item_id: 2, quantity: 6>

You can retrieve existing line items to update them:

line_item = order.line_items.retrieve(1)
  #=> #<Printfection::LineItem id: 1, order_id: 1, item_id: 1, quantity: 3>

line_item.quantity = 12
line_item.save
  #=> true

line_item.quantity
  #=> 12

And delete them:

line_item = order.line_items.retrieve(2)
  #=> #<Printfection::LineItem id: 2, order_id: 1, item_id: 2, quantity: 6>

line_item.delete
  #=> true

Provide a shipping address for the order.

order = Printfection::Order.retrieve(1)
  #=> #<Printfection::Order id: 1 ...>

order.ship_to = {
  name: "Joseph Schmo",
  address: "123 Main Street",
  address2: "Suite 101",
  company: "ACME Inc.",
  city: "Denver",
  state: "Colorado",
  zip: "80202",
  country: "United States"
}

order.save
  #=> true

Whoops, that should be shipped to Sally.

order.ship_to.name = "Sally Schmo"
order.save
  #=> true

Finally, when you are finished building the order, place it:

order = Printfection::Order.retrieve(1)
order.place
  #=> true

Or cancel it:

order = Printfection::Order.retrieve(1)
order.cancel
  #=> true

Retrieving an item

item = Printfection::Item.retrieve(1)
  #=> #<Printfection::Item id: 1 ...>

item.name #=> "My Awesome T-Shirt"
item.color #=> "Green"
item.product.name #=> "American Apparel 50/50 T-Shirt"

item.campaigns
  #=> [#<Printfection::Campaign id: 1 ...>, #<Printfection::Campaign id: 2 ...>]

item.sizes
  #=> [#<Printfection::Size id: 1 ...>, #<Printfection::Size id: 2 ...>]

item.assets
  #=> [#<Printfection::Asset id: 1 ...>, #<Printfection::Asset id: 2 ...>]

Listing all items

items = Printfection::Item.all
  #=> [#<Printfection::Item id: 1 ...>, #<Printfection::Item id: 2 ...>]

Retrieving a campaign

campaign = Printfection::Campaign.retrieve(1)
  #=> #<Printfection::Campaign id: 1 ...>

campaign.name #=> "My Awesome T-Shirt"
campaign.type #=> "giveaway"
campaign.name #=> "My Awesome Giveaway Campaign"
campaign.active #=> true

Listing all campaigns

campaigns = Printfection::Campaign.all
  #=> [#<Printfection::Campaign id: 1 ...>, #<Printfection::Campaign id: 2 ...>]

Printfection objects expose all JSON data from the API responses as accessor methods. The full API documentation can be found here.

For additional examples, check out out the examples directory.

Errors

Our API bindings can raise exceptions for many reasons, such as a trying to place an incomplete order, invalid parameters, authentication errors, and network unavailability.

Most API errors are captured and raised as a Printfection::Error. This makes it easy to gracefully handle exceptions.

begin
  order = Printfection::Order.create(campaign_id: 1)
  # This order does not have any line items and
  # does not have a shipping address,
  # so trying to place this order will raise.
  order.place
rescue Printfection::Error => e
  # Something went wrong placing this order.
  puts e.message
rescue StandardError => e
  # Something else went wrong.
  puts e.message
end

License

MIT

Issues & Support

casey.ohara@printfection.com

Contributing

Fork it ( https://github.com/printfection/printfection-ruby/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request

printfection

Development

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