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Reinhart
There's less information about ruby on rails method in google contact. I would like to share you about how to export new google contact / create new google contact from our table contacts through Ruby.
in my contacts_controller.rb, i wrote this script
class ContactsController < ApplicationController
require 'yaml'
require 'cgi'
before_filter :prepare_google_contact, :expect => [:create, :update]
CONTACTS_SCOPE = 'http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/'
def create
@contact = Contact.new(params[:contact])
respond_to do |format|
if @contact.save
feed = @google_contact.post( CONTACTS_SCOPE + 'contacts/default/base', google_contact(@contact)).to_xml
@contact.update_attribute(:google_contact_id, feed.elements['id'].text)
flash[:notice] = 'Contact was successfully created.'
format.html { redirect_to(@contact) }
format.xml { render :xml => @contact, :status => :created, :location => @contact }
format.fxml { render :fxml => @contact }
else
format.html { render :action => "new" }
format.xml { render :xml => @contact.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
format.fxml { render :fxml => @contact.errors }
end
end
end
# PUT /contacts/1
# PUT /contacts/1.xml
# PUT /contacts/1.fxml
def update
@contact = Contact.find(params[:id])
@saved = @contact.update_attributes(params[:contact])
respond_to do |format|
if @saved
@google_contact.headers = {'If-Match'=>'*'}
feed = @google_contact.put(@contact.google_contact_id,
create_google_contact(@contact.reload())).to_xml
flash[:notice] = 'Contact was successfully updated.'
format.html { redirect_to(@contact) }
format.xml { head :ok }
format.fxml { render :fxml => @contact }
else
format.html { render :action => "edit" }
format.xml { render :xml => @contact.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
format.fxml { render :fxml => @contact.errors }
end
end
end
private
def prepare_google_contact
contact_setup = YAML.load_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/contact.yml")
contact_setup["google"].each { |key, value| instance_variable_set("@#{key}", value) }
@google_contact = GData::Client::Contacts.new({
:authsub_scope => 'http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/',
:source => 'google-DocListManager-v1.1',
:version => '3.0'})
session[:token_contact] = @google_contact.clientlogin(@email_contact, @password_contact)
@contact_entry = <<-EOF
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:contact="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008"
xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
<category term='http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact'
scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'/>
EOF
session[:token_contact] = @google_contact.clientlogin(@email_contact, @password_contact)
end
def google_contact(contact)
data = <<-EOF
#{@contact_entry}
<title>#{contact.first_name}</title>
<content>#{contact.note}</content>
<gd:name>
<gd:fullName>#{contact.first_name}</gd:fullName>
</gd:name>
<gContact:birthday when='#{contact.birth_day}'/>
<gd:email primary='true' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home' address='#{contact.email}'/>
<gd:phoneNumber rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#mobile'>#{contact.mobile}</gd:phoneNumber>
<gd:phoneNumber rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work'>#{contact.phone}</gd:phoneNumber>
<gd:structuredPostalAddress rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home'>
<gd:formattedAddress>#{contact.street}
#{contact.city}
#{contact.province}, #{contact.zipcode}
#{contact.country}
</gd:formattedAddress>
</gd:structuredPostalAddress>
</entry>
EOF
return data
end
end
in this study case I put my login google information in config/contact.yml file like this :
google:
email_contact: yacobus.r@kiranatama.com
password_contact: dec.07.1982
and here is my contact migration script lines :
class CreateContacts < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :contacts do |t|
t.string :first_name
t.string :middle_name
t.string :last_name
t.string :phone
t.string :mobile
t.string :email
t.string :street
t.string :province
t.string :zipcode
t.string :city
t.string :country
t.string :note
t.string :type
t.string :google_contact_id
t.timestamps
end
end
def self.down
drop_table :contacts
end
end
and of course you have to install gem install gdata
Do not confuse about "format.fxml" this is respond data type for Restfulx (Flex/Air Framework).
Simple right !! but when this written's published, google still not release how to create and update trough ruby on rails. And many developer stucked because google provided create and update contact trough Batch method.
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