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Asked: 2026-06-13T09:01:13+00:00

Here’s my code, as per the ‘fusion_tables’ gem documentation . Obviously, I don’t post

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Here’s my code, as per the ‘fusion_tables’ gem documentation. Obviously, I don’t post my username and password in this code.

require 'fusion_tables'

@ft = GData::Client::FusionTables.new      
@ft.clientlogin(my_google_account_name, my_google_account_password)

# Creating a new table
columns = [
    {
        :name=>"column_1",
        :type=>'string'
    }, 
    {
        :name=>"column_2",
        :type=>'number'
    }
]

new_table = @ft.create_table "Ruby table",columns

# Inserting rows
data = [
    {
    "column_1"=>"This is a string",
    "column_2"=>100
    }
]

new_table.insert data

When I run it, I get this error:

<HEAD>
<TITLE>User does not have permission to view the underlying data</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
<H1>User does not have permission to view the underlying data</H1>
<H2>Error 403</H2>
</BODY>
</HTML>

How do I fix this problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like create_table method in the gem is a bit outdated.

    I tried the example above, and the boris_bikes example provided in the fusion_tables gem repo. Both throw the Error 403 User does not have permission to view the underlying data error message on the line invoking create_table method.

    In the above example, the line throwing this error is:

    new_table = @ft.create_table "Ruby table",columns

    The “Ruby_table” fusion table though is created. ( NOTE: The fusion_table gem sanitizes the table name, i.e. it substitutes the spaces in the given name with an underscore. )

    Most likely the Google Fusion table API has changed a bit on this gem in recent times. I have opened a new issue on the repo; hopefully the developers will respond to it soon. (Or if time permit, I will dig into it, figure out the reasons, and submit a patch)

    For now, I would suggest ignoring the error and continuing forward since the table is created.

    After running the new_table = @ft.create_table "Ruby table",columns line, continue with the following steps:

    tables = @ft.show_tables
new_table  = tables.select{|t| t.name == "Ruby_table" }.first

# Inserting rows
data = [ 
 { 
    "column_1"=>"This is a string",
    "column_2"=>100
  }
]

new_table.insert data

    With that you should see the line show up in the Fusion Table.

    On one of my Production Apps, we manually created the required Fusion Tables – merged it with existing Data tables (for which there is no API support as of now), and then use the truncate & insert methods to update the Fusion table data. So not being able to create a Fusion Table programmatically didn’t come up as a big issue for us there.

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