Ian De La Cruz Blog

Working with Google Service Accounts in Ruby

In this post, I’ll be talking about how to work with a Google Service Account, using Ruby, without the Ruby Client library.

The inspiration for this post is my personal struggle with using Google Service Account without the client library. I wasn’t using the official client library because of the fact that it was in ALPHA. Being a project that I’ll only be starting, I can’t risk having the library suddenly change.

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Using Node's built-in HTTP/S modules

While working on a recent class project that involved MongoDB, Node and an external API, I tried creating HTTP request to an external API using just the built-in modules. I was thinking that this wouldn’t be too hard having done it before in Rails. As it turns out, I was going to have a bit of a harder time. I wasn’t getting my expected output: plain text. So, what was the problem?

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Welcome to my blog

Hi. I am Ian De La Cruz, a freelance web developer from the Philippines. I am accepting freelance work alongside my undergraduate studies at Ateneo De Manila University, where I am taking up a major in Computer Science.

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