Uploading new products with multiple variant options - ruby

Question

I am trying to upload products via ruby (not with rails). I have uploaded 100 + products via API, although I cannot upload a product with more than one option value. Even if I assign three option values, it will not populate the other two.
Here is the script:
require 'shopify_api'
require 'open-uri'
require 'json'
begin_time = Time.now
shop_url = "*https*(yes I know the * are their)://-YouWish-:-I'dShareNakedPics-#dev-tactical.myshopify.com/admin/products.json"
include ShopifyAPI
ShopifyAPI::Base.site ="*https*://-YouWish-:-I'dShareNakedPics-#dev-tactical.myshopify.com/admin/"
raw_product_data = JSON.parse(open('omg.json') {|f| f.read }.force_encoding('UTF-8'))
raw_product_data_size = raw_product_data.size
puts '========================================================================='
puts "#{raw_product_data_size} seconds till explosion. assistance
needed..."
puts '-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
single_product_begin_time = Time.now
# Create new product
new_product = ShopifyAPI::Product.new
new_product.title = "Variants Suck"
new_product.body_html = "So"
new_product.product_type = "Much"
new_product.vendor = "Please"
new_product.tags = "Help"
new_product.variants = [
{
"option1" => "This One Works",
"option2" => "Lost Cause",
"option3" => "/wrist",
"postion" => "1",
"price" => "10.00",
"sku" => "12345",
"inventory_management" => "shopify",
} ]
new_product.images = [
{
src: "https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0750/0067/files/Pro-Tapes.jpg?11603036243532110652"
} ]
new_product.save
creation_time = Time.now - single_product_begin_time
puts '-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
puts "Sorry About the mess babe, atleast it only took #{begin_time - Time.now} minutes."
puts '========================================================================='
I am testing this on a dev shop, but I am attempting to rebuild something previously built on magento, where I can have people convert my csv data entry to json, then array/hash the data.
Please don't link me to the (shopify)/API info. I have read it. I don't understand the formatting of it. If I were to shopify-cli console, and paste the api example in irb, it won't execute properly. I am sure I am just lacking the required knowledge of working with APIs, although if you can help me just slightly it would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

This node.js script adds item with variants. The difference here is that it includes a list of options on the product element. Note that if you comment out the options element then I get the same problem you are reporting in that only the first option is imported.
var https = require('https');
var cred = new Buffer(privateAppAPIKey +":"+ privateAppPassword).toString('base64');
var headers = {Authorization: "Basic "+cred, "Content-Type": "application/json"};
var options = {
host: 'kotntest1.myshopify.com',
port: 443,
path: '/admin/products.json',
method: 'POST',
headers: headers
};
// Setup the request. The options parameter is
// the object we defined above.
var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
res.setEncoding('utf-8');
var responseString = '';
res.on('data', function(data) {
responseString += data;
console.log(data);
});
res.on('end', function() {
var resultObject = JSON.parse(responseString);
});
});
req.on('error', function(e) {
// TODO: handle error.
console.log(e);
});
var product = {
product:{
title:'My First Test Product',
options : [
{name : "First"},
{name : "Second"},
{name : "Third"}
],
variants: [
{
title:'v1',
option1: 'Red',
option2: "Honda",
option3: 'Prelude'
},
{
title:'v2',
option1 :'Blue',
option2 :'Ford',
option3 :'Escort'
}
]
}
};
req.write(JSON.stringify(product));
req.end();

Answer 2

I used #bknights code as a reference and got my code to work in ruby. You just have to set the option names on the product level first:
new_product = ShopifyAPI::Product.new
new_product.options = [{"name" => "Size"}, {"name" => "Color"}]
Then adding variants work:
new_product.variants = [
{
"option1" => "S",
"option2" => "Black",
"position" => "1",
"price" => "10.00"
},
{
"option1" => "M",
"option2" => "Black",
"position" => "1",
"price" => "10.00"
}
]
new_product.save