# Rails plugin for inviting people in your GMail, Yahoo, ... address book?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-plugin-for-inviting-people-in-your-gmail-yahoo-address-book/133730>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 3, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-plugin-for-inviting-people-in-your-gmail-yahoo-address-book/133730 "2008-04-03T01:26:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Henry\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@Henry\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Henry_W)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-plugin-for-inviting-people-in-your-gmail-yahoo-address-book/133730/1 "2008-04-03T01:26:59Z")

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Hi,

Is there a plugin available that offers integration with your GMail,  
Yahoo,  
etc. address books, so a user can easily select e-mail addresses? I’ve  
seen  
similar functionality on Facebook and Twitter and hoping someone has  
already  
open sourced the code.

–  
Henry  
[http://www.henrywagner.org/](http://www.henrywagner.org/)

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**Author:** ![Henry\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@Henry\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Henry_W)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-plugin-for-inviting-people-in-your-gmail-yahoo-address-book/133730/2 "2008-04-03T02:43:10Z")

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Hi Henry,

I don’t know of a plugin, but there is a ruby gem called blackbook

[http://contentfree.rubyforge.org/blackbook/](http://contentfree.rubyforge.org/blackbook/)

rgds,

- matt  
[http://www.tickex.com](http://www.tickex.com)

Henry W. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a plugin available that offers integration with your GMail,  
> Yahoo,  
> etc. address books, so a user can easily select e-mail addresses? I’ve  
> seen  
> similar functionality on Facebook and Twitter and hoping someone has  
> already  
> open sourced the code.
> 
> –  
> Henry  
> [http://www.henrywagner.org/](http://www.henrywagner.org/)

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**Author:** ![Henry\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@Henry\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Henry_W)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-plugin-for-inviting-people-in-your-gmail-yahoo-address-book/133730/3 "2008-04-03T05:08:09Z")

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Hi Matt,

Thanks for the link, that looks like what I need. If I can make a  
generic  
Rails plugin for the UI I’ll open source it.

Henry

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Matt S.1 \<  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote:

> > –  
> > Henry  
> > [http://www.henrywagner.org/](http://www.henrywagner.org/)
> 
> –  
> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).
> 
> >

–  
Henry  
[http://www.henrywagner.org/](http://www.henrywagner.org/)

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**Author:** ![Henry\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@Henry\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Henry_W)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-plugin-for-inviting-people-in-your-gmail-yahoo-address-book/133730/4 "2008-04-03T18:04:04Z")

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The Google contacts data api will let you query a users contacts  
without requiring the user to give their password away to the 3rd  
party site. [Contacts API Migration Guide &nbsp;|&nbsp; People API &nbsp;|&nbsp; Google for Developers](http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/) I haven’t used it  
myself, I only heard about it on the rails envy podcast.