performance-marketing

google-ads-ruby: Simplify Ads Management

Name: google-ads-ruby: Simplify Ads Management
Author: googleads

Streamline Google Ads with the google-ads-ruby library, designed for founders

82 stars72 forksRubyGuide quality 8/10Updated 8/19/2026100% free · open source

What it does

The google-ads-ruby library allows startup founders to manage and automate their Google Ads campaigns directly from their Ruby applications.

When to use it

•When you need to automatically generate reports on ad performance
•When you want to create and manage ad campaigns programmatically
•When you need to integrate Google Ads with your existing Ruby-based marketing tools

Ready-to-paste prompt

bundle exec ruby examples/add_ad_group.rb --customer_id 1234567890 --campaign_id 1234567890 --ad_group_name 'My New Ad Group'

Heads up: Make sure you have a Google Ads manager account and have enabled the Google Ads API in the Google Cloud Console, as you will need to generate a client ID and client secret to use with the google-ads-ruby library

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🔑 Needs an API key

Works after you add credentials — the setup agent will ask you for them.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/google-ads-ruby && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/google-ads-ruby/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/google-ads-ruby/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How google-ads-ruby: Simplify Ads Management works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Google-ads-ruby: Simplify Ads Management is a very large Ruby project (~756k lines across 5870 code files, plus 19 test files). Setup is light: installs like a normal app. Reading the code is optional. Last commit this month, Apache-2.0 license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~756k lines · 5870 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

One-command install

Installs like a normal app. Reading the code is optional.

Runs on

Ruby

No API keys detected

Ruby 100%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
lib/google/ads/google_ads.rb
Inside lib/ — the main logic begins here
3
examples/account_management/create_customer.rb
A worked example — copy this to get going

What's in each folder

lib/Core code — the actual logic5757 files

examples/Examples you can copy102 files

codegen/Folder20 files

scripts/Helper scripts4 files

test/Tests — proof it works17 files

.github/CI / automation (GitHub Actions)4 files

.bundle/Tool / agent settings1 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedNo CIExamples includedApache-2.0 licenseUpdated this month