A Ruby gem for getting a list of your Gmail contacts. Most of the code here has been extracted from mislav's contacts gem. It's been updated to work with Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3.
gem install gmail-contacts
or in your Gemfile:
gem 'gmail-contacts', :require => "gmail-contacts"
Get a link to the authorization URL:
GmailContacts::Google.authentication_url("http://mysite.com/invites")
The user will be redirected to the URL you pass and a token parameter will be sent along. Capture
that token and then request the contacts:
GmailContacts::Google.new("some_token").contacts
Every Contact has a name and email fields:
GmailContacts::Google.new("some_token").contacts.each do |contact|
puts "#{contact.name}: #{contact.email}"
end
First create the authorization link in one of your views:
# app/views/invites/new.html.erb
<%= link_to "Invite your Gmail contacts", GmailContacts::Google.authentication_url("http://mysite.com/invites") %>
Then create a controller action that receives the token and fetches the contacts:
# config/routes.rb
match "/invites" => "invites#index"
# app/controllers/invites_controller.rb
class InvitesController
def index
token = params[:token]
@contacts = GmailContacts::Google.new("some_token").contacts
end
end
Finally, iterate through the contacts in your view:
# app/views/invites/index.html.erb
<% @contacts.each do |contact| %>
<span><strong><%= contact.name %></strong>: <% contact.email %></span>
<% end %>