Learn-Rails Tut Error: NoMethodError - undefined method `login' for GoogleDrive:Module:

Question

Here are the first lines of the server output:

NoMethodError - undefined method `login' for GoogleDrive:Module:
  app/models/contact.rb:16:in `update_spreadsheet'

Here is the contact model (contact.rb):

class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base has_no_table

column :name, :string
column :email, :string
column :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(ENV["GMAIL_USERNAME"], ENV["GMAIL_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

Bounced the server and double-checked for typos (including making sure I had the right ENV variables in the application.yml file) but I am still running into the error.

Answer 1

I'm following the Learn-Rails tutorial by Daniel Kehoe. One of the gems installed was google_drive. That leads me to what I need to do - I am using an older version of the book from 2013. This lead me to go here: rubygems.org/gems/google_drive/versions I changed the specific gem to gem 'google_drive', '0.3.6' since it was using 1.0 - then the error I received was an authentication error. Changed the settings on my test Gmail account and it works now. Thanks for helping me figure that out!