🏴‍☠️ UndriveGoogle

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👣 How will this project approach the September 2025 hostile takeover of RubyGems? 🚑️

I've summarized my thoughts in this blog post.

🌻 Synopsis

Toolkit for:

1. Liberating variously formatted files from your Google Drive
2. Applying a set of transformations to liberated files
   • patterned rename
   • unzip
   • correct HTML errors
3. 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.

1. Give 🐭 your 🍪 for "safe-keeping"
2. Recognizing this SPoF, you ask 🐭 to give back a 🍪 copy
3. "I'll run it through my 🍪 🖨", says 🐭
4. 🖨 replicates various 🍪 extensions: pdf, odt, docx, txt, rtf, zip, and epub
5. Rename 🍪 for web (e.g. replace with _)
6. Extract replicated .zip format to .html
7. Rename extracted HTML file for self-hosting
8. Realize 🐭's HTML is invalid
9. Fix 🐭's broke-ass (missing lang attribute and title element)
10. Upload 🍪 to your website (you're on your own for this part)
11. Finally Finished!
12. Find mistakes 😭
13. Bake a new 🍪
14. 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 4
Works with MRI Ruby 3
Support & Community
Source
Documentation
Compliance
Style
Maintainer 🎖️
... 💖	🧊 🐙 🛖 🧪

Compatibility

The gem's declared runtime compatibility floor is MRI Ruby 3.1+, with concordant releases of JRuby and TruffleRuby. CI workflows and Appraisals are generated for MRI Ruby 3.1+. The current MRI CI lane runs on Linux and macOS. The test floor is configured by ruby.test_minimum in .kettle-jem.yml. When it is higher than the runtime floor, older runtime-compatible Rubies are not covered by the generated CI or Appraisal matrix.

The amazing test matrix is powered by the kettle-dev stack.

How kettle-dev manages complexity in tests

Gem	Source	Role	Total downloads
appraisal2	GitHub	multi-dependency Appraisal matrix generation
appraisal2-rubocop	GitHub	RuboCop Appraisal generator integration
kettle-dev	GitHub	development, release, and CI workflow tooling
kettle-jem	GitHub	Appraisals & CI workflow templates
kettle-soup-cover	GitHub	SimpleCov coverage policy and reporting
kettle-test	GitHub	standard test runner and coverage harness
rubocop-lts	GitHub	Ruby-version-aware linting
turbo_tests2	GitHub	parallel test execution

Federated DVCS

Find this repo on federated forges (Coming soon!)

Federated DVCS Repository	Status	Issues	PRs	Wiki	CI
🧪 galtzo-floss/undrive_google on GitLab	The Truth	💚	💚	💚	🐭 Tiny Matrix
🧊 galtzo-floss/undrive_google on CodeBerg	An Ethical Mirror (Donate)	💚	💚	➖	⭕️ No Matrix
🐙 galtzo-floss/undrive_google on GitHub	Another Mirror	💚	💚	💚	💯 Full Matrix

Enterprise Support

For enterprise support from the maintainer, use Upwork or CodeMentor.

Other support channels:

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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

⚙️ 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. Currently, Open Collective is our preferred funding platform.

Corporate Sponsorship

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.

Individual Support

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

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Support us with a monthly donation and help us continue our activities. [Become a backer]

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Another way to support open-source

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. 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.

I’m developing a new library, floss_funding, designed to empower open-source developers like myself to get paid for the work we do, in a sustainable way. Please give it a look.

Floss-Funding.dev: 👉️ No network calls. 👉️ No tracking. 👉️ No oversight. 👉️ Minimal crypto hashing. 💡 Easily disabled nags

🔐 Security

See SECURITY.md.

🤝 Contributing

If you need some ideas of where to help, you could work on adding more code coverage, check 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

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🪇 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

📌 Versioning

This library follows for its public API where practical. For most applications, prefer 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.

Dropping support for a platform can be a breaking change for affected users. If a release changes supported platforms, it should be called out clearly in the changelog and versioned with that impact in mind.

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"

See CHANGELOG.md for a list of releases.

📄 License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT .

© Copyright

See LICENSE.md for the official copyright notice.

Copyright holders

• Copyright (c) 2022, 2025-2026 Peter H. Boling

🤑 A request for help

Maintainers have teeth and need to pay their dentists. After getting laid off in an RIF in March, and encountering difficulty finding a new one, I began spending most of my time 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.

To join the community or get help, use the RubyForum or Discord.

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Please give the project a star ⭐ ♥.

Many parts of this project are actively managed by a kettle-jem smart template utilizing StructuredMerge.org merge contracts.

Thanks for RTFM. ☺️

Field	Value
Package	undrive_google
Description	🏴‍☠️ Liberate files from your Google Drive with transformations
Homepage	https://github.com/galtzo-floss/undrive_google
Source	https://github.com/galtzo-floss/undrive_google
License	MIT
Funding	https://github.com/sponsors/pboling, https://ko-fi.com/pboling, https://liberapay.com/pboling/donate, https://opencollective.com/galtzo-floss, https://thanks.dev/u/gh/pboling, https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pboling