Rails Adwords API - cannot load such file -- adwords_api

[Richard Henry]

Hi,

I am new to the AdWords API and I am using rails and will use the Client Library provided. I am trying to integrate it with the Rails framework and I've setup my adwords_api.yml in the config file and tried to require this in my controller but I keep getting:

cannot load such file -- /Users/Richard/Desktop/wdi_13/projects/final_project/clean_project/adwords_app/config/adwords_api

my controller code is:

require "#{Rails.root}/config/adwords_api"

class ReportsController < ApplicationController

  

  def index

    adwords = AdwordsApi::Api.new

    token = adwords.authorize()

  end

end

I've looked into it and i thought it may be something to do with the path, which is why I have the Rails.root there but the path with this is definitely correct.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Rick

 

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello Rick,

We have an example app in Rails that might be helpful: https://github.com/googleads/google-api-ads-ruby/tree/master/adwords_api/examples/adwords_on_rails

As for your specific error, if you don't specify a location for the config file, the client library will look in ENV['HOME'], not in your rails root directory. Take a look in the example's ApplicationController, in the create_adwords_api method. Here, when instantiating the API, it passes the full file path so that it looks in the correct directory.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

[Arjun Rajkumar]

Hi Richard, 

Were you able to get this fixed? Running into the same issue using Rails. 

Getting a load error - 'cannot load such file -- adwords_api'

I am requiring the 'adwords_api' file in the controller when getting this error. 

Would be great to know how you fixed this issue. 

Thanks

Arjun

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

Can you provide more details about exactly what you're trying to include? Once the adwords_api gem is installed, you should simply have to have a line:

require 'adwords_api'

If that's not working, please double-check that the google-adwords-api gem is correctly installed.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team