Ruby on Rails

Dropbox uploading files

Dropbox uploading files=>

1. create developer account on dropbox (create credentials).

2. put credentials in app.rb

DROPBOX_APP_KEY = "1ikbatyv1u00ikq"

DROPBOX_APP_KEY_SECRET = "1bcaudn17ab9ach"

DROPBOX_APP_MODE = "dropbox"

3. create routes

match '/home/authorize' => 'home#authorize' , :via => [:get,:post] , :as => :dropbox_auth

match '/home/callback' => 'home#callback' , :via => [:get,:post] , :as => :dropbox_callback

4. Logic in cotroller

def authorize

dbsession = DropboxSession.new(DROPBOX_APP_KEY, DROPBOX_APP_KEY_SECRET)

#serialize and save this DropboxSession

session[:dropbox_session] = dbsession.serialize

filename = params[:file].original_filename

extension = filename.split('.').last

tmp_file = "#{Rails.root}/tmp/#{filename}"

File.open(tmp_file, 'wb') do |f| f.write params[:file].read end

#pass to get_authorize_url a callback url that will return the user here

redirect_to dbsession.get_authorize_url url_for(:action => 'callback',:file => tmp_file)

end

def callback

dbsession = DropboxSession.deserialize(session[:dropbox_session])

# debugger

if params[:not_approved].blank?

dbsession.get_access_token

dbsession = DropboxSession.deserialize(current_user.dropbox_session)

# create the dropbox client object

client = DropboxClient.new(dbsession, DROPBOX_APP_MODE)

data = File.read(params[:file])

# client.put_file("test.png",data)

client.put_file(params[:file],data)

session[:dropbox_session] = dbsession.serialize

current_user.update_attributes(:dropbox_session => session[:dropbox_session])

session.delete :dropbox_session

flash[:success] = "You have successfully authorized with dropbox."

end

redirect_to root_url

end

Box.net uploading fles=>