Workarea Mail Chimp

MailChimp plugin for the Worakrea e-commerce platform

This plugin creates a basic integration between the Workarea platform and MailChimp's v3 API

It requires a mailchimp access token which can be generated by following MailChimp's OAuth2 Flow here: http://developer.mailchimp.com/documentation/mailchimp/guides/how-to-use-oauth2/

Scope and Dependencies

This plugin currently wraps functionality for subscribing and unsubscribing users by email, as well as retrieving interest groups (or categories) for users and lists

It is dependant on the gibbon rubygem which provides a basic wrapper for the MailChimp v3 API.

Getting Started

Add the gem to your application's Gemfile:

# ...
gem 'workarea-mailchimp'
# ...

Update your application's bundle.

cd path/to/application
bundle

Configuration

This plugin requires gateway configuration in order to function.

In your secrets file:

mail_chimp:
  :api_key: APIKEY
  :default_list_id: LIST_ID
  :list_preferences_id: LIST_PREFERENCES_ID

To find your default list ID, in the mailchimp admin:

Go to the list you wish to use
Click the settings dropdown menu
Choose the 'List name and defaults' menu item
You will find the List ID on this page, at the time of writing it is displayed at the top left of the page.

To find your list preferences ID via the API playground:

Visit API playground
Enter your API key
Click on the 'Lists' Link
Find the subresources dropdown for your default list
Choose 'interest-categories' from the subresources dropdown
Click the name of your interest group
Use the ID field shown in the details section, the 'list_id' field should correspond with your default_list_id

Testing & Maintenance

Ensure that the gateway credentials within application secrets are set in spec/dummy/config/secrets.yml for test mode

To get specs to pass, you will need to configure a MailChimp account with the following data

A group/category with the same information as what is configured in HelperMethods#email_all_interests_hash in spec/fixtures/helper_methods.rb
A user that was unsubscribed with the following email: test-unsubscribed@weblinc.com
A subscribed user with the following email: mdalton-simonpearce@weblinc.com

The specs use VCR cassettes to record http requests, so maintainers will need to flush the cassettes when modifying the requests.