Sheeeit will take data in the form of arrays of arrays, e.g. [["Name", "Computer", "Pet"], ["Martin", "C64", "Rock"], ["Alice", "IBM PC Compatible", "Dog"], ["Fred", "IBM System/360", "Mammoth"]] and write it into the worksheet of a Google Docs spreadsheet. In addition, if wanted, it will keep an overview worksheet which keeps track of the last update of every single worksheet.

The hard work of connecting to Google Drive and actually altering spreadsheets is done by the awesome google-drive-ruby gem. Sheeeit just provides a more convenient way to (re)write a whole worksheets in one go (and optionally keeping an overview of all the worksheets).

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'sheeeit', git: '[email protected]:lomography/sheeeit.git'

and then bundle, as usual. This gem is not released on rubygems, so please use github to install.

There are two things you need to configure: access to Google Docs and the gem itself.

Sheeeit will automatically pickup a config/sheeeit.yml configuration file in which you can set a few things.

---
google_auth: 'config/sheeeit.json'
spreadsheet_key: 'some-key'
worksheet_name: 'some-name'

overview: true
overview_header:
  - Application
  - Last Updated At

Alternatively, you can also use an initializer instead of the config file.

Sheeeit.configure do |config|
  config.spreadsheet_key = 'some-key'
  config.worksheet_name  = 'some-name'
end

The following keys are required for everything to work:

• google-auth: Path to an authentication json file. Defaults to config/sheeeit.json and will be autocreated if it doesn't exist.
• spreadsheet_key: The key to the spreadsheet you want to write to. You can find the key of the spreadsheet by opening the spreadsheet in Google Docs. The url should look like https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<spreadsheet_key>/edit#
• worksheet_name: Give a name to your worksheet.

After setting up the gem, if you run Sheeeit.write_spreadsheet without an authentication file, you will be prompted something like this:

1. Open this page:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?access_type=offline&client_id=<SNIP>

2. Enter the authorization code shown in the page:

Just log into google and grant Sheeeit access to your spreadsheets. The needed information will then be writen into a file and no further authorization should be needed.

Once everything is configured, usage is rather straightforward:

# write data into google doc
Sheeeit.write_spreadsheet [["Name", "Age", "Awesome"], ["Frank", 31, true]]

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment. Tests are mostly built on mocking the interface provided by google-drive-ruby and ensuring Sheeeit is calling the right methods, since we don't want to actually connect to Google Drive while testing (which is what google-drive-ruby is doing in its tests).

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/lomography/sheeeit. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

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

Wondering about the name? Gotcha.