Google API authentication

[hhumphrey84]

I'm trying to play around with this tool but I'm stumbling at the first hurdle as I don't seem to be able to authenticate with the google API. I've followed all the instructions and it seems to produce the right output which is a clients secrets file:

{
    "installed":{
        "client_id":"xxxx",
        "auth_uri":"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
        "token_uri":"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
        "auth_provider_x509_cert_url":"https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
        "client_secret":"xxxx",
        "redirect_uris":["urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob","http://localhost:4567"]
    }
}

I launch Middleman and I get immediately redirected to google where I authenticate with the same account that I used to set up the above. Authenticate but then get redirected back to localhost:9292....I'm not sure why that url? The .google_drive_oauth2.json is never created and the whole thing fails.

Any idea what the issues might be?

Thanks,
Helen

[ryanmark]

Hey Helen - did you get this figured out?

[hhumphrey84]

Yes apologies, I was meant to add that bit of information. After a big of searching around it seems there is an issue with OSX's ruby library at this time (2.2.1):

googleapis/google-api-ruby-client#253

And by adding this:

ENV['SSL_CERT_FILE'] = Gem.loaded_specs['google-api-client'].full_gem_path+'/lib/cacerts.pem'

At the top of my config file, the problem is solved for now...I'm keeping an eye on this and hopefully it can be removed in the future.

[trevrosen]

I get why RVM/rbenv don't ship one of these, but it seems weird that Apple doesn't just link to the same cacert file that Safari already has, though I suppose it could just be compiled into the bin. FYI I added some commentary to the voxmedia/workstation step that installs one of these files from the Curl maintainers, explaining why it's necessary.

[Nibin96]

@hhumphrey84 👍 thanx it works for me , i'm using ruby 2.0.0