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Brent Sullivan
Brent Sullivan
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Posted by Brent Sullivan
Brent Sullivan
9,877 Points

Nitrous.io, Rails, google_drive gem. "Authentication failed" error. Any ideas?

Hi, I am trying to utilize the google_drive gem in a Rails app and am getting the following error:

"Authentication failed for [my_email_address]@gmail.com: Response code 403 for post https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin: Error=BadAuthentication Info=InvalidSecondFactor"

Google is preventing access (I keep getting security warnings via email from Google: "Google Account: sign-in attempt blocked"), and am looking for a way to get around this error.

Someone suggested I enabled two-step verification in my gmail account to ultimately retrieve an "application-specific password." I entered the application-specific password in place of my normal gmail password, but Google, I believe, is still denying my application access to my gmail account.

Any idea how to get around this?

Thanks a bunch!

Brent

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