Google Auth Library for Ruby

Homepage
http://www.github.com/google/google-auth-library-ruby
Authors
Tim Emiola
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 Google, Inc.
License
Apache 2.0

Build Status
Dependency Status

Description

This is Google’s officially supported ruby client library for using OAuth 2.0
authorization and authentication with Google APIs.

Alpha

This library is in Alpha. We will make an effort to support the library, but
we reserve the right to make incompatible changes when necessary.

Install

Be sure https://rubygems.org/ is in your gem sources.

For normal client usage, this is sufficient:

$ gem install googleauth

Example Usage

require 'googleauth'

# Get the environment configured authorization
scopes =  ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute']
authorization = Google::Auth.get_application_default(scopes)

# Add the the access token obtained using the authorization to a hash, e.g
# headers.
some_headers = {}
authorization.apply(some_headers)

Application Default Credentials

This library provides an implementation of
application default credentials for Ruby.

The Application Default Credentials provide a simple way to get authorization
credentials for use in calling Google APIs.

They are best suited for cases when the call needs to have the same identity
and authorization level for the application independent of the user. This is
the recommended approach to authorize calls to Cloud APIs, particularly when
you’re building an application that uses Google Compute Engine.

What about auth in google-apis-ruby-client?

The goal is for all auth done by
google-apis-ruby-client to be performed by this
library. I.e, eventually google-apis-ruby-client will just take a dependency
on this library. This update is a work in progress, but should be completed
by Q2 2015.

License

This library is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is
available in COPYING.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

Support

Please
report bugs at the project on Github. Don’t
hesitate to
ask questions
about the client or APIs on StackOverflow.