📍 NOTE
RubyGems (the GitHub org, not the website) suffered a hostile takeover in September 2025.
Ultimately 4 maintainers were hard removed and a reason has been given for only 1 of those, while 2 others resigned in protest.
It is a complicated story which is difficult to parse quickly.
I’m adding notes like this to gems because I don’t condone theft of repositories or gems from their rightful owners.
If a similar theft happened with my repos/gems, I’d hope some would stand up for me.
Disenfranchised former-maintainers have started gem.coop.
Once available I will publish there exclusively; unless RubyCentral makes amends with the community.
The “Technology for Humans: Joel Draper” podcast episode by reinteractive is the most cogent summary I’m aware of.
See here, here and here for more info on what comes next.
What I’m doing: A (WIP) proposal for bundler/gem scopes, and a (WIP) proposal for a federated gem server.

🏴‍☠️ UndriveGoogle

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🌻 Synopsis

Toolkit for:

Liberating variously formatted files from your Google Drive
Applying a set of transformations to liberated files
- patterned rename
- unzip
- correct HTML errors
Profit

Want to link directly to the Google-Drive-hosted alternate format of a file?
If yes, DO NOT use this gem. Instead follow these instructions.

OTOH, if you want to “own”, host, track, etc your ‘own’ files
(e.g. your resume), DO use this gem.

Story Time

Imagine Google Drive is a 🐭
Imagine your file (e.g. resume) is a 🍪
🐭’s 🍪 exporter: 🖨

Tell me if you’ve heard this one already.

Give 🐭 your 🍪 for “safe-keeping”
Recognizing this SPoF, you ask 🐭 to give back a 🍪 copy
“I’ll run it through my 🍪 🖨”, says 🐭
🖨 replicates various 🍪 extensions: pdf, odt, docx, txt, rtf, zip, and epub
Rename 🍪 for web (e.g. replace ` ` with _)
Extract replicated .zip format to .html
Rename extracted HTML file for self-hosting
Realize 🐭’s HTML is invalid
Fix 🐭’s broke-ass (missing lang attribute and title element)
Upload 🍪 to your website (you’re on your own for this part)
Finally Finished!
Find mistakes 😭
Bake a new 🍪
GOTO 1

This gem solves the classic 🐭-🍪 problem by automating steps 3-9.
Will save at least 15 minutes each loop.

Note that it doesn’t have to be a resume.
There are likely other use cases that apply.

💡 Info you can shake a stick at

Tokens to Remember
Works with JRuby
Works with Truffle Ruby
Works with MRI Ruby 3
Support & Community
Source
Documentation
Compliance
Style
Maintainer 🎖️
`...` 💖	🧊 🐙 🛖 🧪

Compatibility

Compatible with MRI Ruby 3.1+, and concordant releases of JRuby, and TruffleRuby.

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Federated DVCS

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✨ Installation

Install the gem and add to the application’s Gemfile by executing:

bundle add undrive_google

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

gem install undrive_google

🔒 Secure Installation

For Medium or High Security Installations

This gem is cryptographically signed, and has verifiable [SHA-256 and SHA-512][💎SHA_checksums] checksums by [stone_checksums][💎stone_checksums]. Be sure the gem you install hasn’t been tampered with by following the instructions below. Add my public key (if you haven’t already, expires 2045-04-29) as a trusted certificate: ```console gem cert --add <(curl -Ls https://raw.github.com/galtzo-floss/certs/main/pboling.pem) ``` You only need to do that once. Then proceed to install with: ```console gem install undrive_google -P HighSecurity ``` The `HighSecurity` trust profile will verify signed gems, and not allow the installation of unsigned dependencies. If you want to up your security game full-time: ```console bundle config set --global trust-policy MediumSecurity ``` `MediumSecurity` instead of `HighSecurity` is necessary if not all the gems you use are signed. NOTE: Be prepared to track down certs for signed gems and add them the same way you added mine.

⚙️ Configuration

You’ll probably want to follow these (outdated) steps
to create a service account.

At the end of the process a [siteid]-[first-12-chars-of-key].json file will be
downloaded to your computer. DO NOT EXPOSE THE KEY, i.e. do not push it
to any public source repository.

When you run the undrive_google command this JSON key file should be in the
current directory.

Additionally, an optional undrive_google.yml file in the
current directory can give you control over the behavior.

What goes in the undrive_google.yml file?

Default: Liberate All Formats

All non-commented values shown are default.

# [PATH] Path to the JSON file with Google Service Account Key
key_file: 'service_account_private_key.json'

# ID of file to liberate, as key or title
file_id: '<actual-key-or-title>'
file_by: 'key' # or 'title'

# [String, Array<String>] Which extensions to download?
extensions: 'all'

# [Boolean] The HTML format download comes as a .zip archive.
# Want the .zip unzipped? (only relevant if extensions is `all`, or includes `zip`)
unzip: true
# [Boolean] Keep the .zip after extracting the `.html`?
keep_zip: true

# Rename downloaded files?
# rename_<type>, where type is:
#   1. a downloadable format name, like `odt`, `docx`, `pdf`, etc
#   2. html (which isn't downloadable, has to be unzipped from .zip)
# e.g.
# rename_html: 'resume.html'

# Rename downloaded files following a pattern?
# Only applies to files not explicitly specified with rename-<type>
# Will never apply to the html file unzipped from the .zip
# Used as: file_name.gsub(rename_pattern[0], rename_pattern[1])
# By default, no renaming, must be specified
# rename_pattern:
#   - "_"
#   - " "

# [PATH]
dir: '' # defaults to current working directory

verbose: true # or false

# [String] Set inner text of missing title element, if unzipping `.zip` to `.html`.
title: '' # When empty, defaults to the title of the file.

# [String] Adds lang attribute to html tag, If unzipping `.zip` to `.html`,
#            value is like `fr`, `es`, etc.
lang: 'en'

Example: Liberate Specific Formats (keeping other defaults)

In this example we choose to download only the odt, txt, and epub extensions,
and leave the remaining settings as default, except for title.

# [String, Array<String>] Which extensions to download?
extensions:
   - 'odt'
   - 'txt'
   - 'epub'

title: 'My Cool HTML'

🔧 Basic Usage

Example: Export epub & Unzip html

NOTE: There is a bug (missing feature) in google_drive gem preventing export of epub format. You can use my patched branch if you need epub:

Create a Gemfile:

source "https://gem.coop"

gem "google_drive", github: "pboling/google-drive-ruby", branch: "pboling-epub-mimetype"

Please upvote this PR #427!

When liberating your files, ensure the script will use the Gemfile if it isn’t in the same directory where you are running the undrive_google command:

BUNDLE_GEMFILE=path/to/Gemfile bundle update
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=path/to/Gemfile bundle exec undrive_google -c path/to/config

NOTE: If the Gemfile and the config are in the same, current, directory, you can simply run:

bundle exec undrive_google

My complete Gemfile looks like this:

# frozen_string_literal: true

source "https://gem.coop"

gem "undrive_google", "~> 1.1"

# See: https://github.com/gimite/google-drive-ruby/pull/427
gem "google_drive", github: "pboling/google-drive-ruby", branch: "pboling-epub-mimetype"

My undrive_google.yml config file looks like this (sanitized a bit):

file_id: "the-key-to-my-google-drive-file(find-in-the-url)"
key_file: serviceid-1234567890.json
dir: /my/path/to/my/cv
rename_html: resume.html
rename_pattern:
  - " "
  - "_"
extensions: zip
keep_zip: true
unzip: true
verbose: true
sweep: true

The liberated files get published at https://railsbling.com/cv.

🦷 FLOSS Funding

While galtzo-floss tools are free software and will always be, the project would benefit immensely from some funding.
Raising a monthly budget of… “dollars” would make the project more sustainable.

We welcome both individual and corporate sponsors! We also offer a
wide array of funding channels to account for your preferences
(although currently Open Collective is our preferred funding platform).

If you’re working in a company that’s making significant use of galtzo-floss tools we’d
appreciate it if you suggest to your company to become a galtzo-floss sponsor.

You can support the development of galtzo-floss tools via
GitHub Sponsors,
Liberapay,
PayPal,
Open Collective
and Tidelift.

📍 NOTE
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I’m driven by a passion to foster a thriving open-source community – a space where people can tackle complex problems, no matter how small. Revitalizing libraries that have fallen into disrepair, and building new libraries focused on solving real-world challenges, are my passions — totaling 79 hours of FLOSS coding over just the past seven days, a pretty regular week for me. I was recently affected by layoffs, and the tech jobs market is unwelcoming. I’m reaching out here because your support would significantly aid my efforts to provide for my family, and my farm (11 🐔 chickens, 2 🐶 dogs, 3 🐰 rabbits, 8 🐈‍ cats).

If you work at a company that uses my work, please encourage them to support me as a corporate sponsor. My work on gems you use might show up in bundle fund.

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🔐 Security

See SECURITY.md.

🤝 Contributing

If you need some ideas of where to help, you could work on adding more code coverage,
or if it is already 💯 (see below) check reek, issues, or PRs,
or use the gem and think about how it could be better.

We so if you make changes, remember to update it.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more detailed instructions.

🚀 Release Instructions

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Code Coverage

🪇 Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting with this project’s codebases, issue trackers,
chat rooms and mailing lists agrees to follow the .

🌈 Contributors

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Also see GitLab Contributors: https://gitlab.com/galtzo-floss/undrive_google/-/graphs/main

⭐️ Star History

📌 Versioning

This Library adheres to .
Violations of this scheme should be reported as bugs.
Specifically, if a minor or patch version is released that breaks backward compatibility,
a new version should be immediately released that restores compatibility.
Breaking changes to the public API will only be introduced with new major versions.

dropping support for a platform is both obviously and objectively a breaking change

—Jordan Harband (@ljharb, maintainer of SemVer) in SemVer issue 716

I understand that policy doesn’t work universally (“exceptions to every rule!”),
but it is the policy here.
As such, in many cases it is good to specify a dependency on this library using
the Pessimistic Version Constraint with two digits of precision.

For example:

spec.add_dependency("undrive_google", "~> 1.0")

📌 Is "Platform Support" part of the public API? More details inside.

SemVer should, IMO, but doesn't explicitly, say that dropping support for specific Platforms is a *breaking change* to an API. It is obvious to many, but not all, and since the spec is silent, the bike shedding is endless. To get a better understanding of how SemVer is intended to work over a project's lifetime, read this article from the creator of SemVer: - ["Major Version Numbers are Not Sacred"][📌major-versions-not-sacred]

See CHANGELOG.md for a list of releases.

📄 License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of
the MIT License .
See LICENSE.txt for the official Copyright Notice.

© Copyright

🤑 A request for help

Maintainers have teeth and need to pay their dentists.
After getting laid off in an RIF in March and filled with many dozens of rejections,
I’m now spending ~60+ hours a week building open source tools.
I’m hoping to be able to pay for my kids’ health insurance this month,
so if you value the work I am doing, I need your support.
Please consider sponsoring me or the project.

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