googleplus

Google+ Ruby Sample

This is a simple Sinatra web application that calls the Google+ APIs in ruby.

Please make sure that you're running Ruby 1.8.7+ and you've run bundle install on the sample to install all prerequisites.

This API uses OAuth 2. You can learn more about Google APIs and OAuth 2.

Or, if you'd like to dive right in, follow these steps.

Visit the API Console to register your application.
From the "Project Home" screen, activate access to "Google+ API".
Click on "API Access" in the left column
Click the button labeled "Create an OAuth 2.0 client ID"
Give your application a name and click "Next"
Select "Web application" as the "Application type"
Enter "localhost:9292" as the site location
Click "Create client ID"
Edit your client settings
Change "Authorized Redirect URIs" from the default to "http://localhost:9292/auth/google/callback". Note that in production you'll want to use SSL.

Edit the client_secrets.json file and enter the client ID & secret that you retrieved from the API Console:

You should have checked out the code and you should have it in a local directory. If not check out the code to a local directory.