Miscellaneous Ruby Scripts

This repo has some Ruby scripts I wrote.

• markdown_extended.rb: Does some Markdown translation and handles code sort of differently from the Redcarpet default
• combine_ad_copy.rb: Complicated script to perform all permutations of lists of words in different files - the point is to auto-generate keywords to use in online ad buying platforms
• random_number_generator.rb: I use this to make passwords.
• google_client.rb (in google_drive): See below

google_client.rb

I wrote this to do backups of Google Drive documents using the Ruby Google Client API gem. As far as I know, there isn't any open source code to do that.

It's still pretty primitive. Here's how it works:

• Use Ruby 2.0. The script uses Keyword Arguments, so 1.9 is unsupported.

• gem install: parseconfig, google/api_client, launchy

• Make a file called gd_config.ini - that's where you should put your Google auth secrets. See below for an example.

• Run mkdir data at the command line.

• Add this line in the config file you created in step 3 above.

    target_directory = 'data' # This is why you had to mkdir data above
  

• Run the script like so, to start backing up from your root folder:

    ruby google_client.rb
  

• If you want to back up a specific folder (which has to be in your Google Drive root), then do it this way - this will make a backup of all folder whose title contains "Title X" in it:

    ruby google_client.rb 'Title X'
  

Caveats

• Images and forms will be ignored.

• The script assumes a specific order in which MIME types are considered, when there are multiple MIME types for a document. This order is dictated by the following line:

    formats=[/office.*sheet/, /officedocument.wordprocessingml/, 'ppt', /text.plain/, /pdf/]
  

  If you want to add more MIME types, you have to first detect the file type using a string or regular expression in this list. Then you have add the actual MIME type to the @known_conversions instance variable in the GoogleBackup class. Yeah, ugly.

• The script will forget the access token it obtains the first time around, if you don't already have one. You have to remember to write it down into your gd_config.ini file

• The script will need to launch a browser to get an authorization code the first time round - so you can't run this on a VPS, or other non-windowed system.

Sample gd_config.ini

target_directory='data'
client_id = 12345-l21op8cat789gut52iju.apps.googleusercontent.com
client_secret = 5DC_A9Secret098ID
debug = 1 # Remove this line if you don't want copiously verbose debug information.
[oauth_creds]
access_token = ya29.1.the_rest_of_the_cred
token_type = Bearer
expires_in = 60
refresh_token = 1/the-rest_oftheToken