Using ‘contacts’ gem you can import all your contact emails.
Step 1:
In Your Gemfile add,
## For Importing Email Contacts gem "contacts", :git => "git://github.com/abhilashak/contacts.git" gem "gdata", :git => "git://github.com/abhilashak/gdata-1.git"
For importing from gmail, we need the gem ‘gdata’.
Do bundle install
you are done.
Step 2:
In your views/import_profile_contact/new.html.erb file,
<%= text_field_tag "profile_contact[email]", "" %> <%= password_field_tag "profile_contact[password]", "" %>
Put one more hidden field tag to know that from which email the user need to import
<%= hidden_field_tag :contact_from, @contact_from %>
the values of @contact_from may be gmail, yahoo mail, hot mail. According to which option user clicks pass the corresponding string.
Step 3:
In your controller get the email and password params
@contact_from = params[:contact_from] email = params[:profile_contact][:email] password = params[:profile_contact][:password] if @contact_from && email && password if @contact_from == "gmail" @imported_contacts = Contacts.new(:gmail, email, password).contacts elsif @contact_from == "yahoo_mail" @imported_contacts = Contacts.new(:yahoo, email, password).contacts elsif @contact_from == "hotmail" @imported_contacts = Contacts.new(:hotmail, email, password).contacts end end
You will get all contacts in an array….