Google Base Class is a base for authenticating to google and making requests to google services. =Installation sudo gem install googlebase =Usage ===Establish A Connection The code below shows how to use the gem by itself. It checks if username and password are correct (raising Google::LoginError on FAIL) and stores the session id internally. Then you can make requests and the session id is automatically passed in a cookie. require 'google/base' Google::Base.establish_connection('username', 'password') Google::Base.get('http://google.com/reader/path/to/whatever/') Google::Base.get('https://google.com:443/analytics/home/') # to make an ssl request ===Inheritance This example takes things a bit farther and shows how to use this class simply as a base to get some methods for free and then wrap whatever google service you would like. require 'google/base' Google::Base.establish_connection('username', 'password') module Google module Reader class Base < Google::Base class << self def get_token get("http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/token") end end end end end puts Google::Reader::Base.get_token