cant find spreadsheet on GoogleDrive which was created by google_drive gem / learn-rails tutorial

Question

I'm trying to complete the learn-rails tutorial and I have come across a problem implementing the writing of visitors recording in a GoogleDrive spreadsheet as depicted in the tutorial which actually refers to outdated procedures of loggging to the GoogleDrive spreadsheet.

Since userID / password are'nt supported anymore I created a service account at Google as suggested by the google_drive gem docs and succesfully connected from rails to my spreadsheet this way:

def update_spreadsheet connection = GoogleDrive::Session.from_service_account_key("SpreadSheet-acd8a78038a0.json") 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 puts "Current num rows: "+last_row.to_s ws.save end

Everythig runs fine in my rails app but I can't access the spreadsheet from GoogleDrive in my Chrome browser despite the fact that the spreadsheet actually exists somwhere since I noticed num_rows increrements at console log each time I add a contact within the app.

If I can't see the spreadsheet directly in Google Drive from Chrome then it's bad news since I'd need to write a separete ruby app to download the data.

Any suggestion is very welcome.

Answer 1

At last I found the solution:

1) I created a Learn-Rails-Example spreadsheet (it was the name given by rails) manually in my google drive

2) I shared that doc with the client_email of my service account (webserve@spreadsheet-61909.iam.gserviceaccount.com)

3) I Lunched the rails app and noticed that from now on the spreadsheet was update and visible to google drive in Chrome browser.

Problem solved!