NoMethodError in ContactsController#create - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am trying to make a functional contact form that stores data in a Google Drive spreadsheet.
When I am testing the application, and fill in the contact form and press 'submit', i get this error:
NoMethodError in ContactsController#create
undefined method `login' for GoogleDrive:Module.
Application Trace
app/models/contact.rb:16:in 'update_spreadsheet'
app/controllers/contacts_controller.rb:10:in `create'
contact.rb
class Contact
include ActiveModel::Model
attr_accessor :name, :string
attr_accessor :email, :string
attr_accessor :content, :string
validates_presence_of :name
validates_presence_of :email
validates_presence_of :content
validates_format_of :email,
:with => /\A[-a-z0-9_+\.]+\#([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z0-9]{2,4}\z/i
validates_length_of :content, :maximum => 500
def update_spreadsheet
connection = GoogleDrive.login(Rails.application.secrets.email_provider_username,
Rails.application.secrets.email_provider_password
)
ss = connection.spreadsheet_by_title('Learn-Rails-Example')
if ss.nil?
ss = connection.create_spreadsheet('Learn-Rails-Example')
end
ws = ss.worksheets[0]
last_row = 1 + ws.num_rows
ws[last_row, 1] = Time.new
ws[last_row, 2] = self.name
ws[last_row, 3] = self.email
ws[last_row, 4] = self.content
ws.save
end
end
contacts_controller.rb
class ContactsController < ApplicationController
def new
#contact = Contact.new
end
def create
#contact = Contact.new(secure_params)
if #contact.valid?
#contact.update_spreadsheet
# TODO send message
flash[:notice] = "Message sent from #{#contact.name}."
redirect_to root_path
else
render :new
end
end
private
def secure_params
params.require(:contact).permit(:name, :email, :content)
end
end

Answer 1

I also had this issue while following the Learn Rails book by Daniel Kehoe. If you check the GitHub repository for the project, he has included a simple workaround. Specifically:
In the file app/models/contact.rb
require "google_drive_v0"
And the connection variable:
connection = GoogleDriveV0.login(Rails.application.secrets.email_provider_username, Rails.application.secrets.email_provider_password)
has been updated from the book. The full code for the file is:
require "google_drive_v0"
class Contact
include ActiveModel::Model
attr_accessor :name, :string
attr_accessor :email, :string
attr_accessor :content, :string
validates_presence_of :name
validates_presence_of :email
validates_presence_of :content
validates_format_of :email, :with => /\A[-a-z0-9_+\.]+\#([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z0-9]{2,4}\z/i
validates_length_of :content, :maximum => 500
def update_spreadsheet
connection = GoogleDriveV0.login(Rails.application.secrets.email_provider_username, Rails.application.secrets.email_provider_password
)
ss = connection.spreadsheet_by_title('Learn-Rails-Example')
if ss.nil?
ss = connection.create_spreadsheet('Learn-Rails-Example')
end
ws = ss.worksheets[0]
last_row = 1 + ws.num_rows
ws[last_row, 1] = Time.new
ws[last_row, 2] = self.name
ws[last_row, 3] = self.email
ws[last_row, 4] = self.content
ws.save
end
end
This will allow your code to run using the older method, but you will get the following warning in your console:
WARNING: GoogleDriveV0.login is deprecated and will be removed in the
next version. Use GoogleDriveV0.login_with_oauth instead.
To fix this you can follow the helpful information from the other poster. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

You need to use: GoogleDrive.login_with_oauth
def update_spreadsheet
connection = GoogleDrive.login_with_oauth(access_token)
)
...
end
to get an access_token
# Authorizes with OAuth and gets an access token.
client = Google::APIClient.new
auth = client.authorization
auth.client_id = "YOUR CLIENT ID"
auth.client_secret = "YOUR CLIENT SECRET"
auth.scope =
"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive " +
"https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/"
auth.redirect_uri = "urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob"
print("1. Open this page:\n%s\n\n" % auth.authorization_uri)
print("2. Enter the authorization code shown in the page: ")
auth.code = $stdin.gets.chomp
auth.fetch_access_token!
access_token = auth.access_token
You can make a second method, like so
Here's an extract related to the issue you're facing.
Ver. 1.0.0 is not 100% backward compatible with 0.3.x. Some methods have been removed. Especially, GoogleDrive.login has been removed, and you must use GoogleDrive.login_with_oauth instead, as in the example code below.
Read more here: https://github.com/gimite/google-drive-ruby
Update:
You can implement a new file with a new class
Or just add a new method somewhere:
def new_access_token
client = Google::APIClient.new
... #excluded some code
access_token = auth.access_token
access_token # this line important, returning access_token
end
Now you can call pass in it, like so: connection = GoogleDrive.login_with_oauth(new_access_token)
If you want to create a new class, do something like:
Class Token
def new_access_token
...
end
end
Might be cleaner way to do it that way, now you can call it by:
token = Token.new
token.new_access_token
And pass that in:
GoogleDrive.login_with_oauth(token.new_access_token)
Its up to you which method you prefer.