Hi I am working on a event calendar app that I would like a user to be
able to save an event they selected to an online calendar such as Google
Calendar. I have a link to Google Calendar a user can click to open it
in a new tab once the user selected an event. I don''t need to save
user
email info so the best approach I think is to wait for the user to log
into the Google app and then my code adds the selected event into the
calendar.
I guess I need to have a loop (with a timeout) in an action checking to
see if the user has logged in. My idea is to try to get the url of the
logged in page using Mechanize like this: page
agent.get("https://www.google.com/calendar/render"). This is perhaps
a
dumb idea. Or do I really need to capture the login event somehow.
What should I do to accomplish this goal? What tool (gem) I should use
to do this? Please put me on the right track with some guidelines or
link to resources, thanks!
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Andrew Bloom
2008-Nov-28 05:23 UTC
Re: How to wait and check for login to an external site
check out the google calendar API docs, instead of using mechanize and scraping the page. http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/docs/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html On Nov 27, 5:58 pm, kevin lee <rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Hi I am working on a event calendar app that I would like a user to be > able to save an event they selected to an online calendar such as Google > Calendar. I have a link to Google Calendar a user can click to open it > in a new tab once the user selected an event. I don''t need to save user > email info so the best approach I think is to wait for the user to log > into the Google app and then my code adds the selected event into the > calendar. > > I guess I need to have a loop (with a timeout) in an action checking to > see if the user has logged in. My idea is to try to get the url of the > logged in page using Mechanize like this: page > agent.get("https://www.google.com/calendar/render"). This is perhaps a > dumb idea. Or do I really need to capture the login event somehow. > > What should I do to accomplish this goal? What tool (gem) I should use > to do this? Please put me on the right track with some guidelines or > link to resources, thanks! > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Thank you very much for the big hint! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I was able to use AuthSub to retrieve a token from Google but it redirect back to my app and closed the Google webpage. This is not exactly what I want to do. What I actually want to do is to interact with Google Calendar the way many other similar applications, such as Zvents, do, which is direct user to Google Calendar account login page, wait for user to login, and keep Google Calendar open in order to save the event. These apps link to Google Calendar with a url that looks like this: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service... I have not been able to find any reference to this url in the Google Account Authentication API. Any idea where is it covered in the document or this is something else entirely? Or that I simply need to dig deeper into AuthSub to achieve my goal? I would again appreciate any guidance. Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
How do I process the Google token received by using AuthSub after it is passed to my controller (I don''t have an index action but map.connect defaults to index) because I make the request to Google from the main page of my app? Is it possible? Or must I make a request inside an action? Thanks! kevin lee wrote:> I was able to use AuthSub to retrieve a token from Google but it > redirect back to my app and closed the Google webpage. This is not > exactly what I want to do. What I actually want to do is to interact > with Google Calendar the way many other similar applications, such as > Zvents, do, which is direct user to Google Calendar account login page, > wait for user to login, and keep Google Calendar open in order to save > the event. These apps link to Google Calendar with a url that looks > like this: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service... I > have not been able to find any reference to this url in the Google > Account Authentication API. Any idea where is it covered in the > document or this is something else entirely? Or that I simply need to > dig deeper into AuthSub to achieve my goal? I would again appreciate > any guidance. Thanks!-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---