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google-ads-ruby: Streamline Your Ad Campaign Management in Ruby

Easily integrate Google Ads API into your Ruby applications, letting founders automate bidding, reporting, and budget control without leaving the codebase.

From the repo · “Google Ads API Ruby Client Library”

83 stars73 forksRubyGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Oct 23Updated 10/22/2026100% 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
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How google-ads-ruby: Streamline Your Ad Campaign Management in Ruby works
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Google-ads-ruby: Streamline Your Ad Campaign Management in Ruby is a very large Ruby project (~769k lines across 5963 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
~769k lines · 5963 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. 1
    README.md
    Start here — what it does and how to install it
  2. 2
    lib/google/ads/google_ads.rb
    Inside lib/ — the main logic begins here
  3. 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 logic5841 files
examples/Examples you can copy111 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
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Details
Creator
googleads
Language
Ruby
Category
performance-marketing
Published
4/2/2018

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