A beginner’s guide to setting up your first Shopify app using Ruby on Rails

Hi there, my name is Jeroen, and this is my first article on dev.to. I am a Senior Ruby on Rails developer, and over time I have ended up building quite a few Shopify apps. If you are curious about Shopify app development and have at least touched Ruby on Rails before, this article should be a nice starting point. We are not going to discuss every possible concept around Shopify apps yet. That would just make this article much longer and more confusing than it needs to be. Instead, we are going to do the most important thing first: set up a brand new Shopify app using Ruby on Rails and get it running locally. This article can serve as a reference if you just want to get your first app up and running and have a look around. Introduction For this guide, I am assuming a few things: you already have Ruby on Rails installed you already have Node.js installed you already have Git installed you are comfortable using your terminal you have a Shopify Partner account and a development store You