The **dropbox-api** is a Ruby gem for managing DropBox uploading, downloading and sharing DropBox files and folders. The main goals of building this gem are: 1. Simulate a **permanent access token**, since [Dropbox is moving to "short-term live access codes"](https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Discuss-Dropbox-Developer-API/Permanent-access-token/td-p/592644); 2. Manage DropBox as an elastic-storage providers for [our SaaS projects](https://github.com/leandrosardi/mysaas), allowing us to upload, download and share download links to files; 3. Backup and restore secret files of our projects that cannot be commited into the source code repository (E.g.: database passwords, SSL certificates, private keys).