Outbound

A simple interface to integrate with http://outbound.io

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'outbound'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install outbound

Usage

Easy and simple to use.

  # Create the object
  ob = Outbound::API.new("your_api_key")

  # identify a user
  ob.identify(user_id, traits)

  # track a user
  ob.track(user_id, event, payload)

Here is an example in sinatra.

  require 'sinatra'
  require 'outbound'
  require 'multi_json'

  before "/*" do
    @ob ||= Outbound::API.new("your_api_key")
  end

  post '/identify' do
    content_type :json
    traits = {
      first_name: params[:first_name],
      last_name: params[:last_name],
      email: params[:email]
    }
    MultiJson.dump(@ob.identify("SOME_UNIQUE_ID", traits))
  end

  post '/track' do
    content_type :json
    payload = {
      item: params[:item]
    }
    MultiJson.dump(@ob.track("SOME_UNIQUE_ID", "purchased an item", payload))
  end

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request