Dropbox integration for Flowdock

Polling framework for integrating external services to Flowdock. Contains an example poller for Dropbox integration.

Requirements

• Server with Ruby+RubyGems+bundler installed (tested with Ruby 1.9.3)
• Dropbox account with access to the folders you want to track

Deployment

General instructions

• Checkout the code from Github and run bundle install
• Go to My apps in Dropbox while logged in with the account
• Create a new app with full access to the Dropbox account (name and description can be anything)
• After creating the app you should see App key and App secret tokens. Copy those into the sample.env file in the checked out repository (into APP_KEY and APP_SECRET variables).
• run rake dropbox:authorize and enter your App key and App secret (referenced as Consumer token and Consumer secret)
• The rake task will give you a link for authorizing the app to access your Dropbox account
• Now go back to the rake task and press Enter to continue. You should now see user tokens below, copy them to sample.env (into USER_TOKEN & USER_SECRET variables).
• For each flow you want to have notified you must enter the flow's API token to FLOW_TOKENS variable in sample.env. Just head to Account tokens in order to retrieve tokens for your flows. Copy the tokens to FLOW_TOKENS variable, separated by commas.
• If you want to receive notifications only from a specific path, you can change DROPBOX_PATH to point to the path (eg. /photos/sample album)
• Symlink or just rename sample.env as .env
• run bundle exec foreman start and you are done!

Heroku

Requirements:

• Signup & install Heroku Toolbelt
• Install heroku-config

heroku plugins:install git://github.com/ddollar/heroku-config.git

Checkout flowdock-dropbox from Github and setup Heroku app:

git clone https://github.com/flowdock/dropbox-flowdock.git
heroku create

Push to Heroku:

git push heroku master

Create .env file with your configuration (see above instructions about linking your Dropbox account) and push it to Heroku:

heroku config:push

Finally, start a worker for the app:

heroku ps:scale app=1

See logs for more information:

heroku logs

More info about Heroku deployment: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ruby