Pipekit

Pipekit is a gem to interact with Pipedrive API.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pipekit'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pipekit

Pipekit expects a config file containing your api token and key-value mappings for custom pipedrive fields. Look at example config to see the file structure.

Configure Pipekit with your config file:

Pipekit.config_file_path = File.join("config", "pipedrive.yml")

You need to do once when Pipekit is loaded, the good place for it in the Rails project is initializers.

Usage

The interface of Pipekit is organised around repositories. The available repositories are:

  • Deal
  • DealField
  • Note
  • Organization
  • Person
  • PersonField
  • Activity

Resource repositories

Deal, Note, Organization and Person represent corresponding resources on Pipedrive. Repositories provide several methods for querying and changing these resources.

Methods available for all non-field repositories are:

  • all
  • where
  • find_by
  • create
  • update

Examples

Get all deals

deal_repo = Pipekit::Deal.new

deal_repo.all

Get all persons matching an attribute

person_repo = Pipekit::Person.new

person_repo.where(name: "Mike")

Get the first deal matching an attribute

deal_repo = Pipekit::Deal.new

deal_repo.find_by(id: 123)

Create a person

person_repo = Pipekit::Person.new

person_repo.create({name: "John Doe", deal_id: 123})

Update a note

note_repo = Pipekit::Note.new

note_repo.update(123, {content: "Hey"})

Add an Activity

activity_repo.create(deal_id: 123,
                     subject: "Interview Completed",
                     done: 1,
                     type: "pairing_session",
                     duration: "00:45",
                     note: "This was a fantastic interview")

Field repositories

Pipedrive stores custom fields as key-value pairs. E.g. when you add an "Address" field to Persons Pipderive will store it as something like "050280e9bed01e55e25532f0b6e6228c748bf994"

Methods available for field repositories (PersonField, DealField) are:

  • get_by_key
  • get_by_name
  • find_label
  • find_values

Response object

Pipekit::Response is a hash-like object that performs an automatic conversion if Pipedrive IDs to meaningful field names.

# pipedrive.yml
#
# fields:
#   person:
#     Emergency Contact: 345abd
#     T-Shirt Size: 567qwe
#
# field_values:
#   person:
#     T-Shirt Size:
#       "1": Small
#       "2": Medium
#       "3": Large

data = {"id" => 123, "345abd" => "+44123456789", "567qwe" => "1"}

person = Pipekit::Response.new(data)
person["Emergency Contact"]
  #=> +44123456789
person["T-Shirt Size"]
  #=> "Small"

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/pipekit. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.