Getting Started with the Outlook Mail API and Ruby on Rails

This sample app is the result of following the tutorial at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/rest/ruby-tutorial. If you follow that tutorial, you should come up with something fairly close to the code in this repository.

NOTE: Looking for the version of this tutorial that used the Outlook API directly instead of Microsoft Graph? Check out the outlook-api branch. Note that Microsoft recommends using the Microsoft Graph to access mail, calendar, and contacts. You should use the Outlook APIs directly (via https://outlook.office.com/api) only if you require a feature that is not available on the Graph endpoints.

Running the sample

If you didn't follow the tutorial and just want to download this repository and try it out, you need to do a few things first.

Setup your dev environment

This guide assumes:

• That you already have Ruby on Rails installed and working on your development machine.
• That you have an Office 365 tenant, with access to an account in that tenant OR an Outlook.com account.

Register the app

Head over to https://apps.dev.microsoft.com to quickly get a client ID and secret. Using the sign in buttons, sign in with either your Microsoft account (Outlook.com), or your work or school account (Office 365).

Once you're signed in, click the Add an app button. Enter o365-tutorial for the name and click Create application. After the app is created, locate the Application Secrets section, and click the Generate New Password button. Copy the password now and save it to a safe place. Once you've copied the password, click Ok.

Locate the Platforms section, and click Add Platform. Choose Web, then enter http://localhost:3000/authorize under Redirect URIs. Click Save to complete the registration. Copy the Application Id and save it along with the password you copied earlier. We'll need those values soon.

Here's what the details of your app registration should look like when you are done.

Once this is complete you should have a client ID and a secret. Replace the <YOUR APP ID HERE> and <YOUR APP PASSWORD HERE> placeholders in auth_helper.rb with these values and save your changes.

Install dependencies and initialize project

From a command prompt/shell in the root of this project, run the following commands.

bundle install
rails db:migrate

Start the Rails server

From a command prompt/shell in the root of this project, run the following command.

rails server

Browse to http://localhost:3000.

Copyright

Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.

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