Comments on: A Little Help on Importing Gmail Contacts using Ruby on Rails

By: UP

UP — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:45:34 +0000

I mean “AuthSubtoken=”#{authsub_token}”” –> not working

“AuthSubtoken=#{authsub_token}” –> working

By: UP

UP — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:44:43 +0000

One fix that I needed this to work – you need to remove the outer quotes from around the token parameter.
Btw, the article was superb…helped me understand where to hang off all the code!

“AuthSubtoken=#{authsub_token}”

By: theirishpenguin

theirishpenguin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:11:56 +0000

Just a quick word. When you go to deploy your app, localhost:3000 won’t work anymore for contacting the Gmail API. You’d need to register your Web Application with Google (this is outlined in the Atlantic Domain Solutions guide). As part of this you are asked to enter a Target URL path prefix (ie. the next parameter used in AuthSub). You should set this to be the path to the above controller action. So, for example, if your web app is lives at http://www.mycoolwebsite.net then the value for the Target URL path prefix should be

http://www.mycoolwebsite.net/imported_contacts/authorise

Pay particular attention to not forget the ‘www’ bit if that will be in your URLs!

By: Ross Hawkins

Ross Hawkins — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:19:21 +0000

Nice guide, thanks. To be a real nitpicker, you probably also want to add a line the end of the import method, along the lines of:

@contacts = contacts

Also remember if you’re using VI everything will break.

By: ttb

ttb — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:37:55 +0000

thanks for nice followup article on this